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I know some people using it and it’s mainly because they want a new Twitter in the sense of the place where “everyone” is and “where things happen” online and they see Bluesky as the Twitter successor by virtue of it being the most obviously similar drop in replacement for it. It even has a system for automatically following people who you followed on Twitter if you both link your old Twitter handles.

It's vibes, familiarity, and ease of use, basically, combined with all their friends going there.

That, and the fact that it's not the Fediverse. There's a big market for microblogging platforms that aren't Threads or Mastodon among furries, and Bluesky happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Personally? I've been using Twitter since 2010. I liked it way more from 2013-2016 and bluesky feels like that generation of it. I actually don't hate Twitter for the way it functioned, only because of how shitty and nasty people were on it (and the accessibility for people to be nasty on it). So far there's a big push to NOT bring that energy over to bluesky so it feels like Twitter at what I consider its peak.

i asked a friend and they definitely said the vibes

There's probably an aspect of forced downscaling being less in your face than being told to downscale it yourself. Even though Cohost's solution generally gives in better results, it puts more upfront responsibility without clearly forefronting it's advantages.
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