Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.
because bluesky wants to be a walled garden. they still operate under the same metrics as every other social media platform because their value comes from keeping you on the platform as much and as long as possible and tracking everything you do on it.
they can’t do that if you aren’t logged in and views from external users aren’t as valuable as logged in users.
mastodon doesn’t care about any of that. it works off the principles of the open internet.
because bluesky wants to be a walled garden. they still operate under the same metrics as every other social media platform because their value comes from keeping you on the platform as much and as long as possible and tracking everything you do on it. they can’t do that if you aren’t logged in and views from external users aren’t as valuable as logged in users.
mastodon doesn’t care about any of that. it works off the principles of the open internet.