I wonder how they came up with two million Blacksky users. Who counts as a user? Do they host that many users' accounts? Is it any Bluesky user who subscribed to their feeds? Something else?

Edit:

> Feed subscribers + moderation service subscribers

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millio...

The article reads so weird. "Blacksky grew to millions of users" and "new kind of social network", when it's really just a sub-set of bluesky.

Also given that there's 36 million accounts in total, it seems hard to believe that 2 million of those accounts are following blacksky (5.6% of the bluesky user count) so something is off with the count here perhaps.

The vast majority of Bluesky users use a Bluesky-hosted PDS.