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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.