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.

  • @nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66•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

    • @priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12•2 months ago

      When you try do sign up on the Mastodon app it defaults to and recommends mastodon.social, which does nothing of this sort. The average user will just keep this default and be fine.

    • Eager EagleEnglish
      8•2 months ago

      Since I was a poor little kid in the slums of Nairobi with no internet access I dreamed about having a <service> account. […]

      • L3ft_F13ld!English
        25•2 months ago

        Just like Lemmy, some Mastodon instances have measures in place to try and prevent bots.

        • @wesley@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          And it’s also a way for topic focused servers to filter out signups as well. There are general purpose instances with open sign ups that don’t do that.

          • L3ft_F13ld!English
            3•2 months ago

            Yeah, I got into Fosstodon right before they went invite only. And then I moved to a Sharkey instance.