Bluesky chief: Musk and advertising turned social media into slop

Bluesky's chief operating officer, @rose.bsky.team, tells The Times the platform is going strong but engagement is more important than user numbers or monetising

Coffee, winter jacket, and winter socks 🫣

Best team evaaaahhh!

taylor swift is wearing a blue dress and a gold chain necklace . Alt: taylor swift is wearing a blue dress and a gold chain necklace .

✨Bluesky - a space to speak now. No more blank spaces - just a place for real conversations and new friends. Share your wildest dreams and be yourself. We’re so glad you’re here - it’s been waiting for you. Let’s make this the golden age 🦋

Ohhh!! Hiiii baby. 🤗

Screenshot showing user count at 9000363 users

9 Million Users! 🎉🎆🎉

Well that sure was a quick trip up from ~6.2 Million Users!

9 milhões de usuários! 🎉🎆🎉

Bem, essa com certeza foi uma rápida viagem de ~6,2 milhões de usuários!

I am still in awe witnessing Aurora Borealis
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Oh my!! 😂

An image of Bluesky Shorts

Stop, stare, and share. 📹

We’re so excited to announce Bluesky Shorts!

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In January, the Bluesky app began with a few hundred users. We’ve since grown past 1 million. I’m proud of what our team has accomplished in the last 9 months: we’ve open sourced the protocol and app, introduced self-verification via custom domains, and enabled algorithmic choice with custom feeds.

Reaching 1 Million Users Today, we reached over one million users on Bluesky.

We reached 1,000,000 users!

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Road to 1M users!!! Big thanks to the best team eveeeerrrr! 💙💙💙

We went from 750k to 850k users in about a week. We're less than a few weeks away from 1M users on Bluesky!! Thanks for being a part of our first million :)

Hi Jake, we're excited to have you on board.

Welcome, Vi, we're thrilled to have you here.

Hi, and thanks for being here!

Hi Yaser, welcome aboard!

Greetings, happy to have you join us! Welcome!

Hi, and thanks for being here!

Hello, and welcome to bluesky!

Nice to have you join us!

Hi, scott! Nice to see you here, and welcome!

Looks great! It's great to have you join us!

We're delighted to have you on board with us!

Hi there, We're thrilled to have you join us!

We're excited to have you on board with us!

Hi, we're delighted to have you join us!

Hi there, and welcome to bluesky!

Hi there, thanks for being here!