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Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by rvz »

Several folks in Brazil had much to choose from out of Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky as alternatives to Twitter / X.

Now that X got banned in Brazil and to potentially lose over 100M+ users we are starting to see which platforms they are choosing to sign up to.

So far, Bluesky is seeing a surge in user registrations after the invite system was lifted a year ago. I would expect Threads to also see a surge in registrations as well.

Mastodon however appears not to be even considered as a migration path at all yet, but either way it is still early days for all options.

We'll see in the next 6 months after this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471807

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by adventured »

joejohnson wrote: post #3

Hopefully most people migrate to one of the alternatives not owned by an American oligarch

There are no possible alternatives to US based services unless you enjoy extreme restrictions on speech. Europe has become a big no-go zone for speech over the past decade, they're outright hostile and authoritarian about it (with only a few exceptions among European nations). And the direction re liberalism and human rights in Europe is overwhelmingly hostile toward speech. And for South America, Africa and Asia you can entirely forget about it, there are no reliable speech protected locations in any of those.

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by guerrilla »

rvz wrote: post #2

Several folks in Brazil had much to choose from out of Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky as alternatives to Twitter / X. Now that X got banned in Brazil and to potentially lose over 100M+ users we are starting to see which platforms they are choosing to sign up to. So far, Bluesky is seeing a surge in user registrations after the invite system was lifted a year ago. I would expect Threads to also see a surge in registrat…

Where are you pulling your statistics from?

I'm looking at one of the Mastodon Users Count bots and it seems like there's a 43% increase in sign-ups per weeks since last week. Of course, I have no idea why and that might be normal noise.

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by nickpsecurity »

One of the linked articles said it boiled down to X being ordered to censor political opponents of those in power. They chose not to. I’m glad.

Now, traffic is going to Bluesky. I wonder if this means that Bluesky has or will be offered the same choice. We might see what the character of that organization is by what choice they make.

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by joejohnson »

adventured wrote: post #5
joejohnson wrote: post #3

Hopefully most people migrate to one of the alternatives not owned by an American oligarch

There are no possible alternatives to US based services unless you enjoy extreme restrictions on speech. Europe has become a big no-go zone for speech over the past decade, they're outright hostile and authoritarian about it (with only a few exceptions among European nations). And the direction re liberalism and human rights in Europe is overwhelmingly hostile toward speech. And for South America, Africa and Asia you…

Mastodon, Bluesky, many other less-popular federated social networks.
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