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

Twitter is 'banned' in Pakistan for very similar reasons (requiring a local representative, requiring censorship, etc) under the guise of 'national security concerns'.

We are all still using it via VPN. We get all the govt related info from it, and no one is asking, how come the govt dept themselves are using twitter when it's banned?

No one will move to bluesky/threads/mastodon because as I said everyone is on twitter.

Afterall, if I want to know about the next road blockage or electricity outage, I know I need to go to twitter to check, where else would I go?

these are bullship tactics, but they seem to be working, and the internet is fracturing. It was nice while it lasted, but we will no loner have a 'world-wide' web, just national networks with passport controls on accessing external nets.

Most people in real life aren't using twitter actively at all, and they survive just fine? The only people I know who use it are tech workers in the conference scene, in my real world social circles there is nobody.

Personally I would check my providers website/status page in such circumstances.