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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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[-] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 379 points 3 months ago

I'm sad that a lot of people couldn't perceive the mastodon in the room.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 100 points 3 months ago

Mastodon isn't a straight replacement for twitter, bluesky is.

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 64 points 3 months ago
[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 3 months ago

From what I can tell from within the Mastodon echo chamber: quote replies and moderation

[-] knova@infosec.pub 43 points 3 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.world 39 points 3 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.com 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I thought his name was Alec, not Alex.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It is. Autocorrect and bad proofreading. Thanks, fixed.

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[-] beepnoise@piefed.social 9 points 3 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.

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[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 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.

[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The average user is unfortunately, still to this day, an idiot.

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mastodon does not have as many arbitrary restrictions for one.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mastodon is a bi replacement for twitter.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 71 points 3 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.zip 26 points 3 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.dev 31 points 3 months ago

You lost an average user at "instance", long before "transferring an account". It's a big deal.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.works 10 points 3 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.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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. [...]

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I didn't even know Mastodon has an exclusive club streak lol.

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 25 points 3 months ago

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

[-] wesley@yall.theatl.social 3 points 3 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.

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 27 points 3 months ago

Wait people didn't join Mastodon as well? Just Bluesky?

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Sadsquatch@lemm.ee 22 points 3 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.)

[-] Rose@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They did, but it's nothing huge.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 20 points 3 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.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 16 points 3 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.xyz 3 points 3 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.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 3 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.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Wild that Reddit's creation is closer to the start of the Eternal September than it is to today (19 years).

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 3 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.xyz 3 points 3 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.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 3 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.world 29 points 3 months ago

way too dumb

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

[-] vii@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 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.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 15 points 3 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.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] clot27@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The thing that goes against what most people are used to is the fact that most fediverse services either don't have an official app or the official app is just a proof of concept. You're kind of expected to use either the website directly or third party apps, which are usually much better.

When I still used my Mastodon account I used Megalodon and was testing Moshidon as well. Now I just use the PWA for the Sharkey instance I'm on.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Good. Super-fast growth fucks with local internet culture. Look at what happened to reddit when digg died.

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