I'm not really surprised it was rolled back given Musks political leanings. I am surprised it was even added in the first place though, surely this outcome was obvious?

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agentifysh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think so because it seems both sides were engaged with non-American IPs running hugely popular accounts and it makes sense, why wouldn't you play both sides when you are paid for attention?

I'm thinking Nikita is falling out with Elon as they both seem to have diverging goals with the platform. Advertisement revenues on X isn't that great and neither are conversions on X so you can't really get consistent payouts that match Youtube. Premium subscriptions don't bring in as much dough as advertising did during Twitter days.

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't think so because it seems both sides were engaged…

One side has largely left X.

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pseudo0 an hour ago | parent [-]

The stats don't bear that out. Bluesky has been losing momentum since the election, with its DAU dropping from around 3.5 million to under 1.5 million today. For comparison Twitter has over 100 million. Right-wing alternative platforms had similar issues sustaining momentum, despite a much stronger push factor (right-wing people kept getting banned). It's hard to overcome the power of Twitter's network effect.

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth?t=3m

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> For comparison Twitter has over 100 million. We're on a thread about widespread fake/inauthentic users on Twitter right now. I see very little reason to trust those numbers.

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SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I'm thinking Nikita is falling out with Elon

Hmm, interesting insight, what did they each say when you talked to them?

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abirch 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems like they would have had the statistics. It's a shame that they rolled it back. I'm not necessarily an Elon fan but I respected this feature immensely.

	▲	marginalia_nu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Feature is online for me now. Maybe A/B test, or incomplete rollout?

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energy123 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's less about political leanings and more about profits. There's a reason Jack Dorsey didn't do this, or FB or Reddit.

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awesome_dude 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And why IRC went from default showing IP information to cloaking

	▲	Zak 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think that's mostly to do with script kiddies trying to DoS anyone they disagreed with.

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bpodgursky 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was rolled back temporarily because the first version had an "account created in country [X]" indicator that was found to be unreliable. The new version (which is active now) just has the country the user is currently in.

	▲	p1necone an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds like this will stay useful for like a few days at best until these accounts work out what VPN to use to spoof the location properly.

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api an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I’d be willing to believe Musk was actually surprised. Like a lot of people into heavy political ideology he seems to vastly overestimate the number of people who think the same way about things. He seems to inhabit a serious echo chamber.

	▲	lazide an hour ago \| parent [-]
		When you have that much money, it’s actually hard to find someone who will tell you something you don’t want to hear that is actually true and isn’t doing it just to ragebait you or the like. And I don’t think he’s been trying all that hard either.