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It’s odd to eliminate using GitHub issues as comments because the user would need a GitHub account then decide on bluesky. Bluesky would also require users to have a Bluesky account? How many readers already have a GitHub account vs already have a Bluesky account?

I mean it’s fine, use whatever your comfortable with and Bluesky is the next frontier for development ideas.

>>hk1337+(OP)
As of this comment, Bluesky has ~38M users. To sign up is trivial, and doesn't constrain you to folks who already have a Github account or would sign up for one (tech weighted). Skate to where the puck is going. I suppose including a link to the Bluesky sign up page near the discussion section of a post would be helpful, for those not yet onboarded who want to immediately discuss or intend to in the future.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

EDIT: Ask five people you know outside of tech if they have a Github account. Everyone I know outside of tech moved to Bluesky from Twitter. No one I know outside of tech has a Github account. If I encounter someone who has neither, I'm of course going to recommend a Bluesky account from a utility perspective, as they're likely never going to contribute code, issues, discussion on GH if not a tech person. (most of my network is non tech, non startup, non SV people, ymmv; HN is the closest I get to tech folks most of the time)

>>toomuc+c
Well, github has 225 million users, so bluesky needs to catch up.

>>toomuc+c
38M is the number of accounts registered. It seems like the number of users is lower and falling.

>>toomuc+c
Bluesky is already dying and has 38M registered users to Githubs 225M users. Github is growing, and Bluesky isn't. By your own suggestion, they should have used Github.

>>toomuc+c
Github has a lot more than 38M users so I'm not sure what point you are making with that figure

>>hk1337+(OP)
You can host your own Bluesky instance and federate across instances, with all the data you host stored in an open an portable format, can you do the same with GitHub?

>>toomuc+c
I don't know a single person outside of tech who has a bluesky account. I know very few people in tech who do.

>>skrtsk+G8
It’s coming in gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20311

I would be willing to guess that self hosting gitea as a backup mirror is less work than doing the same for Bluesky. But, just speculating

>>trotha+84
Ehhh the metric for active users is a bit weird. The metric is "daily active likers" but I know a lot of people lurk and don't like posts often. I personally rarely like posts unless I think to go out of my way to do so but I browse the site daily.

And even then while "daily active likers" is down half from 6 months ago, it's still up substantially from even just a month or two prior to that. Bluesky exploded in size at the start of the year and it seems to be finally settling into a steady state with gradual growth (vs the prior explosive growth + falloff).

"Daily records" (at the bottom of the page) is a bit better metric of overall network activity and even though it has also fallen since peak it shows there's still an order of magnitude more activity on network than prior to blowing up.

>>dwedge+Ca
There are quite a number of authors, comedians, artists, and the like on Bluesky. A few examples:

Bill Corbett: https://bsky.app/profile/billcorbett.bsky.social

John Scalzi: https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com

Wil Wheaton: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mwpiq2rr6joccohcz2urkwvn

NY Times Pitchbot: https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Electrek: https://bsky.app/profile/electrek.co

Stephen King: https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social

Eric Idle: https://bsky.app/profile/ericidle.bsky.social

>>trotha+84
I have at least 10 accounts myself.

>>toomuc+c
The puck is not going to bluesky. Ads are back on X. Many who claim to have left have returned. Bluesky is the far leftist version of gab, no matter how you don’t like people saying that.

I’m among that 31M who signed up (as are many of my friends) and only the most left ones are still using it. I trolled for a couple of days until it got boring.