No questions but I appreciate you posting this. Congrats on your success.

Thanks! And thanks for reading!

Very nice. A few years ago I wrapped yt-dlp in a tiny Mac app that downloads whatever URL is on the clipboard. The only graphical option I included was to change the output filename.

John Q, I presume?

I'm er, uh... not familiar with that brand.

Thanks. In a previous career I watched the soul get sucked out of the radio business because of management attitudes just like that. It never recovered.

This is really good.

DNS error.

My lovely wife, to whom I've been married for decades.

Otherwise, money

Well they certainly have experienced a public relations bonanza over the past week. However:

BlueSky: 13 Million users

X.com: 500 Million users

You’re out by about 8mn on Bluesky

More interesting would be active users especially those who follow each mutually and engage with each other

I would add, especially in the case of Twitter, active users that aren't bots, OF advertisers, scammers, and the like. A LOT of Twitter feels like machines talking to each other.

Bluesky: 21.6 Million users

and counting.

https://bcounter.nat.vg/

The article is about enjoying the one more than the other.

The author plainly doesn't like ol' Musky, but there isn't really a winner vs loser distinction made in the article. To the extent there is, it gives the winner label to other services, not Bluesky.

Sadly it’s really hard to distinguish users and bots (on both platforms) - or even impossible. Maybe in the future there is just a social network populated with bots…

I would challenge you to surface metrics that better measure the utility of a vibrant online discussion platform. For example, how many users does HN have?

You fell asleep on yr keyboard again