Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

We love links because we love the open web RE:

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nilay patel (@reckless.bsky.social)

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

This is the future I want for us https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreiey46bi64kgnxdjkqftkrqx47c4yxmolytcnp4svo62q5sfnxyee4 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreigksexfh74qofpb2oigjlhblergvf2r23yyluokz27wfmqpjp6cfy https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreigpoylpeztagi3em2kgak7zhv7avm3j5qv4fylo56aqweb5qi7f4i https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreifpbbtncj5dmg4nxmakvwpjpbidgrbujdqyg4i4fhtuaro7qalohq

Wow another million in a day! 👀 Thank you everyone — we’re going to do our best to make this place great for you. RE:

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Bluesky

Bienvenidos España! https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreiflo6abqlk3wdssd4zldjycsy5rqkfyy72ipgl6fca3jbsr36kh5e

Live view of our servers hanging in there as people keep coming on https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oky5czdrnfjpqslsw2a5iclo&cid=bafkreihm2slpdzhurvv3pslgyrulpfncgboqz2c5c7a7rw4dveeocrd7mi

We call them “posts” RE:

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I write songs and tragedies (@princess-jasmine.bsky.social)

Yay! Also jay, what do we call posts here? Put an end to "skeets" 😂

This is a great community ethos. Did you know there’s also a “Newskies” feed with first posts from new users? I sometimes go in there and say hi to new folks coming on. RE:

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Darren Rowse (@darrenrowse.bsky.social)

I think all of us should spend five minutes doing this each day: 👉 Search Bluesky for “first post” 👉 Filter by “latest” 👉 Like an...

Visualization of the network: a night sky where each star is someone posting ✨ RE:

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Hector (@hctr.dev)

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nig...

Bluesky’s stream of consciousness 🌀 RE:

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Theo Sanderson (@theo.io)

Exploring the full bluesky firehose, in three dimensions: firehose3d.theo.io