I had a Bluesky account at the hight of the twitter migration. At the time it seemed promising and their were a lot of cool tools,both first and third parties, some of them still exist

I had to delete my account because I was at a point where I was overwhelmed by the amount of account I had, but I just got back and have been heating and seeing that bluesky has lost a lot of followers

So my question, did most people go back Twitter? Or did they disperse to other social medias across the internet. And why did people leave in the first place?

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    A good portion of those who left Bluesky did so for bluesky.

    ATProto vs ActivityPub are very different ways to build a social network, and Bsky 's still has a fairly big asterisk, but they scale up dramatically better than Lemmy/Mastadon and aren’t quite as “not-federated” as some ActivityPub promoters want to admit.

    Most notably, you can move the canonical source of your account data to a server not owned by Bluesky, and access the same massive firehouse of data via a client app or last-server option of your choice. And since the banning and safety is done mostly in either that canonical source or last-server step, moving away from the crypto-friendly founding corp is enough for many.

    I’m sure there’s a big swath who moved to Mastadon or threads or even to Twitter. But BlueSky’s still got plenty of traffic for what I want from it.