At least with Bluesky you can trivially download the entire firehose and determine the number of e.g. users liking at least one post. According to public stats [1] based on this data, ~2.8M unique users liked posts yesterday, which aligns very well with the daily active users shown on the graph.
The comparison might be wrong for other reasons, but Bluesky pumping their numbers is probably not one of them.
they are pumping the numbers.
you can clock how many posts per second are happening in real time world wide on the firehose with the following (need "pv" command and websocat command):
I can prove the posts are DECLINING EVERY DAY, and now so can you.
this number never clocked over 160 posts per second.
its trending DOWN to 88-100 posts per second rather than going up, despite adding "20 million people" and "a million a day."
its not growing. its dying. pfraze and jay gruber are lying.
as someone who was already there in the first place, and just got smacked down a month ago over rubbish , with ycombinator comments in my history to prove it , i can tell you that all the artists and things that made bluesky bluesky - including me - are gone smothered suffocated silenced and banned and now all you see are piping hot US political takes all day. im not even in the united states which is why i am livid about the new arrivals and the agenda.
so you have millions of "new accounts" that arent posting anything.
are these just bots to "like" jojo and the krassensteins TDS posting?
there are threads on places i shant mention, describing how new users are scrutinized to see if theyre anywhere politically to the right of Mao and hatebombing / harassing/moderating/banning them immediately. how is this even possible with a million new accounts a day?
The comparison might be wrong for other reasons, but Bluesky pumping their numbers is probably not one of them.
[1] https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats