The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform. Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.

Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

  • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    inb4 in 8 years time “Greensky a.k.a. Trust Me Guys This is THE New Twitter Forever” gains a million new users in the last 3 days.

  • ArugulaZ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yep, I saw them coming in. Works well enough for me… Brazilians make the best Sega Genesis games!

  • myusernameis@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Bluesky has gained a million brazilion new users…

    I’m so sorry, it was right there. And yay for Bluesky!

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I had originally been 100% against Bluesky because of Jack Dorsey, but when he got so steamed about them doing things like actual moderation and left entirely back to Twitter to pettily suck up to Musk, I really started feeling like maybe Bluesky might not be so bad after all.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Finding the right mastodon instance was incredibly annoying. I use it, but barely. Most of the artists I follow are on Bluesky, anyway, which is a lot easier to use.

      • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Mastodon allows you to transfer your followers when you migrate, so it’s not a big deal if you change your mind about the first instance you had chosen.

        • cheddar@programming.devEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You lost an average user at “instance”, long before “transferring an account”. It’s a big deal.

          • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 months ago

            That may be true for someone just looking to sign up with no help, but if they come across a guide or if their friend helps them, then it’s easy.

            • cheddar@programming.devEnglish
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              2 months ago

              So you agree with me. To succeed, a product shouldn’t require a guide or a friend’s help to install and configure it. I work in IT, yet I don’t see people around me bothering with all that. Now think of your relatives, friends, people you see every day on the street or in a mall - they couldn’t care less.

              • Rose@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Well, entering Mastodon in the search bar of a search engine today shows that it’s even easier than it was during the big Twitter exodus. The first link is mastodon.social. Clicking that lands you on a page where Create an account is highlighted in blue. From there, it’s the standard signup process everyone is used to.

                Edit: Rewrote the comment to focus on the actual flow today rather than anything speculative.

      • hemmes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s actually a good question. Surely Mastodon and Lemmy instances should have also seen an uptick in registrations?

        • Sadsquatch@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I saw some posts on Mastodon yesterday celebrating an influx of Brazilian signups, but it was pretty modest compared to the massive exodus to Bluesky. Which, honestly, seems about right and proportionate. (I love Mastodon, but it doesn’t feel like a 1:1 replacement for Twitter the way Bluesky does.)

          • KNova@infosec.pubEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Sure, but there are other ActivityPub protocol softwares that have quote replies and moderation, that aren’t Mastodon. I think the challenge is getting the average user to seek out an instance running one of those softwares and not just mastodon dot social.

            • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Problem is there’s no marketing money to make the better platforms more widely known because there’s not as much monetization of the users to fund it.

              • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
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                2 months ago

                I’m perfectly fine being part of a community not driven by capitalism. It means there’s a lot less incentive to create spam bots. I also can’t run my own BlueSky instance, but I can run Lemmy/Mastodon pretty easily, just like an email server.

                Edit: I didn’t realize BlueSky was also federated, but just using a different protocol. I don’t think that was an option back when I set up lemmy.

          • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Also a bunch of hinky weirdness and slowness.

            The Technology Connections guy (Alex) threw some shade on Mastodon yesterday that seemed like a good example:

            My favorite thing about Bluesky is that I haven’t gotten a stream of notifications that I’ve been tagged in a post on a weird fork of the software which my client doesn’t parse correctly so I only see one side of a conversation.

          • beepnoise@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Also from my experience the users on BlueSky are pretty much a straight swap from Twitter. And by that I mean nobody ever bothers interacting with me at all.

            On mastodon if I so much as rip a fart on there, *someone* will engage with it. On BlueSky? Nada.

          • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I do really wish mastodon had normal quote replies. I believe they decided not include it for reasons related to harassment or bullying. I don’t really get it since you can do practically the same thing but just linking to the post in yours. The mastodon UI even makes it look almost the same as a quote reply.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Federation is a pretty straightforward concept once you understand it and have basic knowledge of networking and software. However many people (apparently the majority of people) find it to be too complicated to understand.

          • SuperSleuth@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Yes, I tried the mastodon app probably about 4 years ago before I knew what federation was. I could not figure out how to sign up and ultimately gave up. There needs to be an app/website that explains it well and guides you through the process.

            And honestly both bluesky and mastodon do a poor job if this.

    • Clot@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Mastodon’s original app is just trash Threads are completely unreadable, it should be like that of X

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      the last time I tried to make a mastodon account I had to type a paragraph about why i want an account and then wait for an email approval and I don’t know what the hell happened because I forgot to look for the email and by now I don’t give a shit

    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can’t fault them. I went through three different instances, one because I disagreed with some of their policies, I don’t remember why I left the second one, I want to say it was technical issues but I honestly don’t remember. Then the third one got closed down because the owner had IRL issues they needed to take care of. Also that instance was on some defederation list because some mod from a large instance had an argument with a mod on my instance.

      Ultimately I ran my own solo instance for a while but lost interest eventually. Mastodon is frankly a shitshow and as long as it stays like that, federation or not makes it just a slightly worse twitter, just with some mods taking the role of Elmo instead.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Early in, the Fediverse gained traction with people that were banned from Twitter and others when it had moderation besides for the word “cis” and to suppress leftist viewpoints. Now that Twitter has none, those people have crawled back alongside with the crypto bros, but the bad name generated by gab, truth social, etc. still prevail.

      Also people are way too dumb to realize what an instance is (people already have trouble realizing e-mail is not a tech invented by Google for Gmail), defederation dramas, drama around loli, no algorithm “to suggest the users whatever they interested in”, less users, generally fediverse apps being way less addictive, etc.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        way too dumb

        Or, more likely in most cases, don’t care and don’t want to care.

        • vii@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          isn’t that another way of calling ignorance aka being dumb?

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            There’s only so many hours in the day. There is something to be said for doing the convenient thing that doesn’t have a learning curve if you’re just trying to enjoy yourself.

            • vii@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Of course, imho, being aware of your own lack of knowledge is something already.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Frankly? I’m happy that they didn’t end in Mastodon. Most of those users would have negative value there, and in the Fediverse as a whole.

      Twitter was always a cesspool of assumptive, entitled, whiny, nationalistic, context-illiterate users, who’d spend most of their time finding reasons to screech at each other (and at you) than sharing interesting content. That’s regardless of language, but it was specially egregious among Brazilian users there. And it got only worse when Musk bought it, as suddenly the alt right users felt themselves justified to soapbox nonstop there.

      Most people with a shred of dignity got the fuck out of that shithole ages ago. The ones not doing so were, most of the time, the ones saying “this is fine, this is how it’s supposed to be”. And those are the ones migrating to Bluesky now.

      Someone might say “but we could integrate them into Mastodon. They’d behave better.” Well… we’re talking about a large horde of users, they’d be more likely to bring the place down than let the place bring them up. Eternal September style.

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        2 months ago

        A not-so-recent fediverse Brazilian user here, before all the X incident in Brazil. I joined Mastodon exactly 1 month ago. Since the beginning, I was only interacting with non-brazilian Mastodon users. In the last few days, however, I’ve been noticing more and more brazilian posts emerging inside Mastodon feeds, even in my home feed (where I follow hashtags such as #poetry, #poems, #occult, #hermeticism, #art and #aiart, as well as non-brazilian users that I’ve been following). Seems like brazilians are spreading across the many existing alternatives, not just Threads or BlueSky. It’s exactly what happened when WhatsApp or Telegram got temporarily blocked here: people started spreading across Discord, Signal, Matrix and so on.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          It’s fine if it’s only a handful of users. Even if they’re from Musk’s Xithole*. My issue would be if a lot of people saw Mastodon and said “it’s Twitter, with an elephant instead of bird!”, still behaving like Twitter users.

          *desculpe-me pela piada besta; não resisti.

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I was a redditor pre Eternal September. That was the beginning of the end for old reddit.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I was a redditor pre Eternal September.

          The point of Eternal September is that it happens all the time, so when was that?

          • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            The point of Eternal September is that it happens all the time, so when was that?

            Kind of - it doesn’t happen “all” the time; it has a beginning, but no end.

            • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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              2 months ago

              If you consider it’s the influx of new users, then yes, it does happen all the time. Do you have a different definition?

              • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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                2 months ago

                What’s “eternal” in “Eternal September” is not the influx of new users, but rather the disruption of the social norms caused by a huge and sudden influx of new users.

                That disruption started in 1993, and never ended. So it had a beginning but no end as of yet.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I was a redditor pre Eternal September. That was the beginning of the end for old reddit.

          Dunno if Reddit got its own Eternal September, but the one that I’m referring to was in 1993, predating Reddit by 12y. It was a huge influx of new internet users, specially evident in the Usenet. Wikipedia has a good article on that, but to keep it short: if you got a huge flood of newcomers at once, you aren’t able to enforce the social norms of a place that keep it friendly and nice; instead the new users force the standard to be lowered.

            • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I agree that it’s wild. And it’s a bit bittersweet for me.

              Usenet - and the old internet as a whole - were all about humans sharing stuff between themselves: I see something cool, I give you the link, you see something cool. While modern platforms try to remove the human from the equation, make them invisible: I see something cool, I “endorse” (upvote, like etc.) it, and that endorsement is used by some algorithm to automatically pick what you’re supposed to be seeing.

              Reddit is both and neither at the same time. The links are manually picked and shared, like in the old internet; but they’re algorithmically sorted and ranked as in the new internet. It’s like a product of the old internet trying to carve its way into the new internet, but never completely ditching its roots.

              Perhaps that’s why that site lasted so long. And I hope that one day we’re going to say “a shame that it died”.

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      normies are allergic to anything other than corporate social media and software

  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Blue Sky is the only one that allows porn and has no defederation drama, so I’m not surprised people went there. Instagram even put a banner telling people to try out threads but who would trust Zuck?

      • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yes, and that’s why it’s hard for artists and their fans to leave, a social media that allows that and normal people posts together has massive visibility compared to enthusiasts site.

    • timconspicuous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Such gross weirdo-behavior to call 900k completely normal people looking to socialize online bots, get off your high horse

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I mean they desperately spam mails to make people join. Also name anyone who isn’t using bots or is getting used by bots these days?

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Genuine question, is Bluesky worth using in its current state? Can it hold a candle to pre-Musk Twitter?

    I’m asking because I feel incredibly burned by the barebones state of Threads and I don’t really want to commit to another platform that doesn’t have its shit together. Threads still doesn’t have trending topics and functional hashtags over a year into its launch, and this is is shit that Mastodon had for years, despite Meta expecting to piggyback off of the ActivityPub protocol and be welcomed into the Fediverse with open arms.

    • Enthusiasticwhale@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s more valuable than Twitter and threads to me… It really is only missing video and I’ll be fully sold and hashtags seem to work… I just don’t use them often

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What are blueskys current userbase numbers, mastodons current userbase numbers, and are they federated with each other?

  • someacnt_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I heard Brazil did not ban twitter for good reasons, it can be to block a passage of speech.

    • kiagam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      elon musk was asked to point a legal rep and show up to answer questions about spreading fake news and promoting criminal activity. He denied. There is some backlash as the judge giva the final warning on twitter since there was no legal rep, which would be a first.

    • bashbeerbash@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      ‘speech’ is just what modern king wannabes use to claim they are above anyone else, including a sovereign state’s laws. People like Elon, Trump, Putin all want to be above any law or form of responsibility.

    • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You heard it wrong, we are punishing the ones that did our January 6th and said nazis should have a party to vote, Musk refused, wtf should a country do then?