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

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420 points rvz | 2 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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rvz ◴[31 Aug 24 14:10 UTC] No.41408985[source]▶
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

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1. guerrilla ◴[31 Aug 24 14:35 UTC] No.41409172[source]▶
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.

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2. timeon ◴[31 Aug 24 14:53 UTC] No.41409303[source]▶
Seems there is another increase in last ~2 hours: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11305699278921998...