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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] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 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.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They did, but it's nothing huge.