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Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/

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Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.

According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb, Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. In addition, mobile daily active users continued to decline, falling 25.6% year-over-year in July to around 3 million.

These declines indicate that even though Bluesky’s app continues to add registered accounts, fewer people are using its mobile app on a regular basis. It also suggests that some of those who joined Bluesky due to their dissatisfaction with X post-elections haven’t stuck around long-term.

But the bigger takeaway here is not just that Bluesky’s post-election bump has shrunk. Bluesky’s app has lost more than half its monthly active users from its late-2024 high, which means that its app usage continued to shrink even after the initial post-election surge subsided. (Its quarterly average was around 22.1 million monthly active users in the fourth quarter of 2024, Similarweb’s data indicates, and it declined to 10.7 million in the second quarter of 2026. That’s a decline of around 52%.)

50% loss in more or less active users in just 2 years? :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes:
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The DUmpster / Re: **** these guys and their pious, phoney Christian BS.
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 12, 2026, 12:14:34 PM »
Hey, lurkers, you know all the yelling and screaming about how ICE is killing people who are just "protesting"?  (They aren't but I'll indulge your delusion for a moment to suit my argument)  How Trump needs removed and ICE needs dissolved for such horrors?

Here's the regime you are defending  Forget YOU guys and your phone humanitarian BS. 

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The DUmpster / Re: **** these guys and their pious, phoney Christian BS.
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on August 12, 2026, 12:04:15 PM »
No one is more pious than a judgmental leftist.
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a gentle request
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on August 12, 2026, 12:03:13 PM »
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is causing untold stress and turmoil

Self-created "untold stress and turmoil" because in reality it isn't happening. I never felt under "stress and turmoil" under the Clintoon and 0Bummer administrations. Biden's was only mildly stressful because of the horrid job he did during the Chinese Wuhan Red Death and the overreaction by goober-mint.
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a gentle request
« Last post by SVPete on August 12, 2026, 11:27:23 AM »
Lots of :kumbaya: noises on that thread, but it won't go much beyond that thread. There's too much Proggier-Than-Thou and Victimier-Than-Thou virtue-signaling to do.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/12
« Last post by SVPete on August 12, 2026, 11:18:58 AM »
Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin's Radical ‘Charity’ Ordered To Cease Operations, as US Ups Pressure on Charity’s Shadowy Benefactor, Neville Roy Singham

https://freebeacon.com/america/code-pink-founder-medea-benjamins-radical-charity-ordered-to-cease-operations-as-us-ups-pressure-on-charitys-shadowy-benefactor-neville-roy-singham/

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Arc of Justice—the California-based charity established by Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to Code Pink and other far left activist groups—was recently ordered by the state's attorney general to cease all operations after failing to file taxes for three consecutive years and account for more than $51 million in assets that still remain a mystery, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Since California first revoked the foundation's charitable registration 18 months ago and ordered it to provide a full accounting of $51,445,599 in outstanding assets it held as of 2023, "no public document establishes what has happened to the money, where it is held, or whether any of it has moved," according to an investigation by the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN) watchdog group that was shared exclusively with the Free Beacon. California's punitive measures are particularly noteworthy given that they were issued under liberal Attorney General Rob Bonta, who has aligned himself with the Democratic Party's far-left progressive wing.

The silence from Arc of Justice raises unanswered questions about a foundation that has long served as the financial backbone for a network of radical advocacy groups tied to Benjamin and her Code Pink cofounder, Jodie Evans. Evans is married to Neville Roy Singham, a Maoist American tech mogul who funds far-left causes from his base in Shanghai and who's currently the subject of a Justice Department criminal probe.

Code Pink, which has had up to a quarter of its operations funded by Singham, is one of the left's most visible agitators, sending its supporters to disrupt high-profile congressional proceedings where they accuse Israel of "genocide." Code Pink, which brims with anti-American sentiment, is also notorious for backing dictators, strongmen, and authoritarian regimes—meeting with Cuban communist officials in Havana, cooperating with Hamas, defending Nicolás Maduro, and explaining away Chinese atrocities against the Uyghurs.

Did Code Pinksters do something too un-Prog? PO Rob Bonta? Let the stench of their shady fundraising and funds handling get so great that Bonta could no longer ignore it?
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a gentle request
« Last post by ADsOutburst on August 12, 2026, 11:15:34 AM »
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Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need.

That may not be who you are, but it’s absolutely what elements of the left are.
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The DUmpster / Re: Just a gentle request
« Last post by SVPete on August 12, 2026, 11:05:39 AM »
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Everyone here is here because we love and support our country. That is what DU is all about. It's what makes DU great.

 :rotf:  :rotf:  :rotf: Time to take a break from your :stoner: . Maybe get a dose of reality from mal regarding DU-folks' "love" for the US.

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Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Obviously the LPC Noob has not seen DU's purges of supporters of certain D Presidential candidates. I'm guessing discussion of LIEden's dropping out and Kammie being imposed on Dems engendered some "warm" discussion. Proggier-Than-Thou and Victimier-Than-Thou :pisscontest: s and other one-upmanship is ordinary common fare on DU.
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The DUmpster / Just a gentle request
« Last post by CC27 on August 12, 2026, 10:16:35 AM »
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Grim Chieftain (2,664 posts)

Just a gentle request

We all are going through some very trying times these days. The toxic, malevolent person in the White House is causing untold stress and turmoil. He is systematically trying to eviscerate our democracy and our Constitution, but let's please not let him divide us. These are very trying times. Nerves are on edge, frustration is off the charts, but let's support each other.

Everyone here is here because we love and support our country. That is what DU is all about. It's what makes DU great.

Lately, I have noticed a bit of hostility towards some of our members. That is not who we are and not what we need. We are stronger together. All of us are struggling. Let's embrace and support each other.

Thanks for reading.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221436173

DU loves and supports the USA? Let me count the ways that is a bunch of BS
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General Discussion / Re: Apparently Coca-Cola doesn't like Jesus
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 12, 2026, 08:31:30 AM »
Coke just getting back to it's roots.  They have been Democrat for a long time  :whistling:



https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/moncrief/photos/detail/999401?search=coca+cola

Zoom in at the base of the burning cross. 
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