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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year.

techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/
TechCrunchBluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunchOver 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.
WolvenSpectre@WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca

Replying to @⁨eicker@lemmy.world⁩

There is a considerable number of users that stopped using Bluesky because of the Age Verification. I think that is playing a significant issue, along with corporate accounts being few and far between compared to Twitter. I really liked how it was set up vs my Mastodon and Twitter account I keep for contests and giveaways. It is a shame they had to go fascist like that.

rabeya3taqwacore@rabeya3taqwacore@anarchist.nexus

Replying to an earlier post

Did those users not hear they can dodge Age Verification by using a different Bluesky compatible app?…

Bluesky are transphobic and Islamophobic “centrist” twats, but the protocol they’ve developed is kinda decentralized and so can be used against their wishes… there’s even one app where you can keep posting even if bsky.social or whatever your home instance is marked you as “banned”… lol.

DFX4509B@DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf

Replying to @⁨rabeya3taqwacore@anarchist.nexus⁩

Did those users not hear they can dodge Age Verification by using a different Bluesky compatible app?

And beyond that, it’s not like you can’t migrate to Blacksky or another third-party PDS, or even host your own PDS if you have the hardware and admin chops for it, although you can also self-host on the Fediverse too, and there’s thousands of instances on the Fediverse vs. a handful on ATproto, plus other than Blacksky who are supposedly completely independent from Bsky’s corporate infrastructure, most third-party PDSes and pretty much all self-hosted PDSes still have to interact with Bsky’s corporate infrastructure at some point where if you host a Fediverse instance, you own the whole thing.

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