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The big one seems to be BlueSky

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

At nine hours and 32 minutes a day, Brazilians rank second globally in average daily internet use, just after South Africans,

Jesus Christ, Brazil. Posting like it's a full time job.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

9h32m as an average? That's highly unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Eugen posted that Mastodon (or maybe m.s?) sign-ups from Brazil are up as well, but has anyone posted numbers/analysis?

Edit: "Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days." - Gargron

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. Bluesky just got over 500k new users.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't like BlueSky, but at least they don't seem to be kowtowing to governments requesting censorship and aiding political candidates like Twitter does, so I guess it's a step up.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That honestly sounds pretty good. But there are no followers on Lemmy, so the mechanism wouldn't make much sense here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has that ever happened, though? I rarely see Mastodon comments here at all...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There is still trolling and stalking. On Mastodon, blocking prevents the blocked person from seeing or replying to posts (while logged in) at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

But it'd be better if they were bringing that to the Fediverse instead of reinventing the wheel with ATP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought I read elsewhere that a fair amount were trying Mastodon too. I take both as wins, given that they could have chosen Threads or Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Nice to wake up to some good news. wish they were not all going to bluesky though...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder how things are going over at Lemmy.eco.br...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Bluesky should stop pushing their own protocol and adopt ActivityPub and the Fediverse. They really don't offer anything that Mastodon or even Threads already have. It's another centralized mess in the making.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn't have that Bluesky does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And account portability, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

(goose.jpg) portability to where?

I'm a bsky fanboy normally but this is not a benefit. The functional part of bluesky is centralized. But they're open source and an open protocol so technically anyone can build a replacement

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reddit also was open source, until it wasn’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit was just a crappy website that a 10 year old could string to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO

The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Came across Openvibe. Mobile client that works across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and soon, Threads. Not perfect, but a good start.

May be one way to handle service migration fragmentation.

[–] independantiste 11 points 2 weeks ago

"OpenVibe"

Is closed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mass adoption ? No, they "Mass to don't".