[Zaylan]

A lot of decentralized projects focus on the philosophy, but most people just want something that works smoothly. Platforms like Blacksky probably grew not because of cutting-edge tech, but because they made it feel easy to use without overthinking.

[echelon]

And yet Threads pushed past that number in half the time.

Bluesky and Mastodon are still the fringe of human community.

[vinyl7]

Meta essentially forces every instagram user to install threads....so it's more forced growth than natural growth

[badc0ffee]

No, they don't. They do heavily push suggested Threads posts in the IG feed, though.

[bilbo0s]

That's because Blacksky and Threads address wildly different markets.

Blacksky's market is literally orders of magnitude smaller. That's quite a growth curve when adjusted for market size.

[krapp]

That's fine. The mainstream is a cesspool of shit and stupidity, and the rest of the world is welcome to drown in it.