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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: 0s | 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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gargron ◴[01 Sep 24 00:15 UTC] No.41413049[source]▶
Why do you believe that about Mastodon?
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1. insane_dreamer ◴[01 Sep 24 16:55 UTC] No.41418390{3}[source]▶
Onboarding and discovery is much too difficult for the average user. Distributed is technologically cool, but will remain niche IMO.
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2. timbit42 ◴[03 Sep 24 21:33 UTC] No.41439485[source]▶
Mastodon isn't distributed, like bittorrent; it's decentralized, like email.