The platform crossed the milestone last night, and it happened about a month and a half after the 25 million mark. Bluesky still has a long way to go to pass Threads, though; Meta’s platform has more than 100 million daily active users. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lgu4lg6j2k2v]
  • FedizenEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    Until there’s overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way. That doesn’t mean it won’t, just that a different capital process is at work. Wikipedia has outlived most of “web2.0” because its funded by donations and run by volunteers.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Until there’s overt advertising its unlikely to enshittify the normal way.

      Trust me we will be deep into that territory so fast it is going to make your head spin.

      Wikipedia has outlived most of “web2.0” because its funded by donations and run by volunteers.

      Private equity and VC funding can’t directly buy Wikipedia and dissect it because it is an at least somewhat functional non-profit organization. That is the only reason.

      • FedizenEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        What would a comparable example be?

          • FedizenEnglish
            11·
            1 month ago

            Twitter was ad driven and was enshittifying before musk bought it, and sold because they were a public company.

            Jay Graber will likely get bored and sell it off or monetize eventually but twitter is definitely not the model here.