Despite being an underdog compared to Twitter and Threads, Bluesky has seen a significant increase in users following the US election, surpassing 15 million users. This surge coincided with a spike in Twitter account deactivations, with over 115,000 US web visitors deactivating their Twitter accounts on November 7. Web traffic and daily active users for Bluesky also increased dramatically in the week before and after the election.
Key takeaways:
- Bluesky, a decentralized social platform, has announced that it will not use its users' posts to train generative AI, contrasting with the policies of Twitter and Meta's Threads.
- While Bluesky does use AI for content moderation and powering its Discover feed, it stressed that these are not Gen AI systems trained on user content.
- Despite its robots.txt policy not preventing outside parties from scraping its data, Bluesky is discussing ways to ensure user consent is respected by these organizations.
- Bluesky has seen a significant increase in users following the US election, surpassing 15 million users, with a notable surge coinciding with a spike in Twitter account deactivations.