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.

      • KNova@infosec.pubEnglish
        43·
        13 days 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
          40·
          13 days 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·
            13 days 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·
        13 days 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@piefed.social
        101·
        13 days 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·
        13 days 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·
          13 days 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

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      181·
      13 days 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.

      • SuperSleuthEnglish
        2·
        13 days 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.