社交媒体服务Bluesky自美国大选以来新增数百万用户
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The social media service Bluesky says it has been gaining millions of users since the U.S. presidential election.
社交媒体服务Bluesky表示，自美国总统大选以来，其用户数量已增加数百万。
Usage data shows Bluesky reached 20 million users this week.
使用数据显示，Bluesky本周用户数达到2000万。
That was up from about 12 million users just one month ago.
这比一个月前的大约1200万用户有所增加。
Bluesky is seen as a major competitor to social networking service X, formerly Twitter.
Bluesky被视为社交网络服务X（前身为Twitter）的主要竞争对手。
American businessman Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and changed the name to X.
美国商人埃隆·马斯克于2022年10月收购了推特，并将其更名为X。
Musk made a series of changes to X shortly after taking over.
马斯克接手X后不久便进行了一系列改革。
These included greatly reducing the number of employees, as well as removing some existing restrictions on user content.
这些措施包括大幅减少员工人数，以及取消对用户内容的一些现有限制。
Many of the released workers were responsible for monitoring the service to identify banned material or account violations.
许多被解雇的员工负责监控服务，以识别违禁材料或账户违规行为。
Musk has described the changes as an effort to protect the free speech of users.
马斯克将这些变化描述为保护用户言论自由的一项努力。
But his critics have noted that removing content restrictions had resulted in more harmful content and hate speech appearing on X.
但他的批评者指出，取消内容限制导致X平台上出现了更多有害内容和仇恨言论。
Some industry experts also see the recent rise in Bluesky users as a possible reaction to the changes under Musk’s leadership at X.
一些行业专家还认为，Bluesky用户近期的增长可能是对马斯克领导下X平台所发生变化的反应。
What is Bluesky?
Bluesky是什么？
Bluesky was started by the former head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.
Bluesky由Twitter前负责人杰克·多尔西创办。
He created it in 2019 as an internal project at Twitter.
他在2019年将其作为Twitter的内部项目创建。
It started as an invitation only service, or platform.
它最初是一个仅限邀请的服务或平台。
But after further development efforts, it was opened up to all users last February.
但经过进一步的开发努力，它于去年二月向所有用户开放。
Bluesky operates similarly to X and Twitter.
Bluesky的运行方式与X和Twitter类似。
It offers a feed of accounts that users follow.
它提供用户所关注账户的信息流。
Users can send direct messages and lock certain posts at the top of a user’s feed.
用户可以发送私信，并将某些帖子固定在用户动态流的顶部。
Bluesky also offers pre-chosen “starter packs” to help new users decide which individuals and organizations to follow.
Bluesky还提供预先选定的“入门包”，帮助新用户决定关注哪些个人和组织。
Why is Bluesky growing?
Bluesky为何在增长？
Bluesky announced in mid-November that its total users had reached 15 million from 13 million at the end of October.
Bluesky在11月中旬宣布，其总用户数已从10月底的1300万增至1500万。
The rate of new users has continued to grow during the past few weeks.
过去几周，新用户增长率持续上升。
But the latest post-election increase was not the first time Bluesky has gained from people leaving X. In the week after X was banned in Brazil in August, Bluesky said it added about 2.6 million users – 85 percent of them from Brazil.
但选举后最新的用户增长并非Bluesky首次从人们离开X中获益。今年8月X在巴西被禁后的一周内，Bluesky表示其新增了约260万用户，其中85%来自巴西。
And during one day in October, about 500,000 new users signed up for Bluesky after X warned that blocked accounts would be able to see a user’s public messages.
而在10月的某一天，当X警告称被屏蔽的账户将能看到用户的公开信息后，约有50万新用户注册了Bluesky。
Many new users – including reporters, left-leaning politicians and celebrities – have shared messages or created memes to explain their decisions for leaving X for Bluesky.
许多新用户——包括记者、左倾政治人物和名人——分享了信息或创作了模因来解释他们决定离开X转投Bluesky的原因。
Some expressed that they saw Bluesky as similar to an early version of Twitter.
一些人表示，他们认为Bluesky类似于早期版本的Twitter。
Several well-known organizations and individuals recently announced they were leaving X because of concerns about changes to that service.
一些知名组织和个人最近宣布，由于对该服务变更的担忧，他们将离开X。
These included the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, British news publisher The Guardian and former CNN news presenter Don Lemon.
这些机构包括非营利组织“反数字仇恨中心”、英国新闻出版商《卫报》以及前CNN新闻主播唐·莱蒙。
Even with Bluesky’s growth, X issued a statement after the U.S. presidential election saying it had “dominated the global conversation on the U.S. election” and had set new records.
尽管Bluesky有所增长，X在美国总统大选后发表声明称其“主导了关于美国总统大选的全球对话”，并创下了新纪录。
Beyond social networking
超越社交网络
Even though Bluesky currently operates much like X, company leaders have said they plan to expand in new directions, The Associated Press reports.
据美联社报道，尽管Bluesky目前的运营模式与X颇为相似，但公司领导层表示他们计划向新的方向拓展。
For example, Bluesky says it is seeking to build a new technical foundation it describes as “a protocol for public conversation.”
例如，Bluesky表示它正寻求建立一个全新的技术基础，并将其描述为“公共对话协议”。
That system is designed to make social networks work across different platforms such as email, internet blogs or phone numbers.
该系统旨在让社交网络在电子邮件、互联网博客或电话号码等不同平台之间实现互通。
Currently, users cannot cross between social platforms to leave a comment on someone’s account.
目前，用户无法跨社交平台在他人账户上留言评论。
X users must stay on X, TikTok users must stay on TikTok, etc.
X用户必须留在X上，TikTok用户必须留在TikTok上，以此类推。
Industry experts say this design is what big technology companies wanted – to build out multiple product offerings around their online properties.
业内专家表示，这种设计正是大型科技公司所期望的——围绕其在线资产打造多种产品服务。
Such systems support the advertising-driven business models of tech companies.
此类系统支撑着科技公司以广告驱动的商业模式。
Bluesky has said it is trying to reimagine this kind of system on its path toward “interoperability” with other platforms.
Bluesky表示，它正试图在与其它平台实现“互操作性”的道路上重新构想这类系统。
I’m Bryan Lynn.
我是布莱恩·林恩。
Bryan Lynn wrote this story for VOA Learning English, based on reports from The Associated Press, Reuters and Bluesky.
布莱恩·林恩根据美联社、路透社和Bluesky的报道，为VOA英语学习频道撰写了这篇报道。
