Bluesky’s lively consumer base is shrinking as its focus expands past the app

Decentralized social community Bluesky was one of many larger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. However now, practically two years later, the social community and would-be X competitor is struggling to carry onto its momentum.

In line with knowledge from digital intelligence supplier Similarweb, Bluesky’s cellular app had 10.4 million month-to-month lively customers worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year. As well as, cellular every day lively customers continued to say no, falling 25.6% year-over-year in July to round 3 million.

These declines point out that although Bluesky’s app continues so as to add registered accounts, fewer persons are utilizing its cellular app frequently. It additionally means that a few of those that joined Bluesky attributable to their dissatisfaction with X post-elections haven’t caught round long-term.

However the larger takeaway right here is not only that Bluesky’s post-election bump has shrunk. Bluesky’s app has misplaced greater than half its month-to-month lively customers from its late-2024 excessive, which implies that its app utilization continued to shrink even after the preliminary post-election surge subsided. (Its quarterly common was round 22.1 million month-to-month lively customers within the fourth quarter of 2024, Similarweb’s knowledge signifies, and it declined to 10.7 million within the second quarter of 2026. That’s a decline of round 52%.)

Constructing past Bluesky

Whereas Bluesky’s numbers are down, those that caught round are dedicated. Its smaller neighborhood stays comparatively lively, with a stickiness charge (the ratio of every day to month-to-month lively customers) of roughly 29% in June, about the identical as Threads.

For Bluesky’s new CEO, Toni Schneider, these numbers is probably not as regarding. The corporate will not be totally targeted on making Bluesky (the app) succeed, however on making it potential for the underlying protocol (AT Proto) to energy a rising variety of social apps, companies, and communities. That’s one thing that’s now happening, as initiatives like BlackSky and Eurosky are rising, whereas some AT Proto apps like the video-focused Skylight have discovered early traction, too.

As well as, the corporate has launched new merchandise, just like the AI-powered research tool Attie, and is now engaged on including help for personal knowledge to Bluesky. The latter might generate new curiosity in Bluesky from a special kind of consumer — these much less within the public sq., and extra involved in non-public networking and communities.

What’s extra, Similarweb’s knowledge doesn’t essentially recommend that Bluesky customers have returned to X, as some could have feared.

As a substitute, the info reveals that X’s worldwide month-to-month lively customers on cellular have been down round 3% year-over-year in June, and X’s cellular every day lively customers dropped 7% in July to 123.7 million. (In fact, X stays a large social community with round 302 million month-to-month lively customers on its app as of June 2026 and a rising variety of internet visits, up 5.3% year-over-year in July to 4.7 billion.)

If something, the app to now be involved about is Threads. It’s unclear whether or not Threads is benefiting from Bluesky’s falling engagement, or if it’s managed to draw a brand new set of people that had by no means earlier than used a Twitter-like service.

In any occasion, the Meta-owned app’s every day lively customers have been up 21.3% year-over-year to 147 million in July 2026, and its web site visits have been up 112% year-over-year to 471.6 million.

Bluesky’s own public stats indicate the corporate now has practically 46 million registered customers, nevertheless it doesn’t share particular knowledge on every day or month-to-month lively utilization.