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

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420 points rvz | 4 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.033s | 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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stevebmark ◴[31 Aug 24 16:45 UTC] No.41410060[source]▶
Mastodon was dead from the start, it isn’t in the running.

Threads has too big of an image problem to overcome. No one wants Instagram for Twitter.

Bluesky is the only platform currently that has a chance, but it’s an under funded, tiny team who can’t ship on time. Bluesky will see a surge in registrations but no change in DAU as they still haven’t supported video, so no one will stay on the site.

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threeseed ◴[01 Sep 24 05:04 UTC] No.41414440[source]▶
> No one wants Instagram for Twitter

It has about 200M MAU. So a lot of people clearly do want it.

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1. Hamuko ◴[01 Sep 24 08:15 UTC] No.41415167[source]▶
How are the MAU counted for Threads, as the user accounts are the same exact as on Instagram?
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2. threeseed ◴[01 Sep 24 09:26 UTC] No.41415470[source]▶
The URLs are different (threads.net versus instagram.com).

So pretty easy to tell in the analytics which site the user is on.

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3. Hamuko ◴[01 Sep 24 09:43 UTC] No.41415542[source]▶
What about the app? As far as I know, Instagram users were getting Threads notifications inside the app.
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4. slater ◴[01 Sep 24 19:37 UTC] No.41419678{3}[source]▶
The instagram app desperately wants me to post to threads, see all the fun stuff i'm missing on threads, and just join threads in general.

PS: Nice to see our resident mastodon hater (OP) is still at it, including the requisite smug "told-you-so"/"i totally predicted this!!~" link :D