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In June Elon posted this graph of the rate of likes on X. It doesn't have a unit on the y axis, but it's plausible to assume that it's events/sec. If that is true, X in June was handling about 20k likes/sec. For comparison, Bluesky is now handling about 700 likes/sec during the busy part of the day.

If we take rate of likes as a general measure of activity, that means X was about 30 times bigger in June than Bluesky is now. That may seem like a big difference, but keep in mind that Bluesky has consistently been doubling user numbers every few months, and a factor of 30 is only 5 doublings.

Isn’t there an issue that the whole culture of X seemed to be ‘rewarding likes’… whereas that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Thankfully. Yet.

Not to forget that on X the likes by whore bots made a big part of allover likes - plus Russian bots/trolls liking each others