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.

    • KNovaEnglish
      43•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
        39•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
          24•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
      22•2 months ago

      Also a bunch of hinky weirdness and slowness.

      The Technology Connections guy (Alec) 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
      10•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
      2•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.

      • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        I do kind of like how it makes mastodon feel smaller since I cannot interact with or post quote replies, unlike Tumblr or Twitter. Those sometimes accrue millions of interactions. But it is a choice that will keep Mastodon small