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.

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    312·
    2 months ago

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

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

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

        • KNova@infosec.pubEnglish
          5·
          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
            11·
            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.