is bluesky the most direct competitor to farcaster? 

apple : microsoft = farcaster : x?

if you had to pick one which one is it?

I’d say Mastodon. For ppl I know that are choosing to leave Twitter they are either coming here or going there. Still a bit early for BlueSky to say where it falls.

Working on SoundOff https://apps.apple.com/app/soundoff-daily-conversation/id1661147373  and Druck https://apple.co/3GXl1Ya

i’m a fairly advanced and technical user, and i did get in but after a lot of struggles. def harder than wallet connect so not sure where it’s land in the mainstream consumer land.

Agreed. I think all of these have a ways to go before the onboarding is good enough for mainstream usage.

There are 10M users on ActivityPub. I _think_ about 70% are on Mastodon.

The number of users who onboard mobile first is growing, which is a lot easier than the web interface.

Medium, Flipboard, and Mozilla all have their own server instances. 

Strong signal that Tumblr will turn on ActivityPub support.