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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.

Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What are blueskys current userbase numbers, mastodons current userbase numbers, and are they federated with each other?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago

are they federated with each other?

no. there's a sort of a third party bridge, but it requires an account on one platform to follow a bot in order to show up on another, so if someone on Bluesky doesn't explicitly do it and you're using Mastodon, then you're not going to connect.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

Two competing federation standards. The VHS and Betamax, or Blu Ray and HD-DVD, of 2024.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Bluesky: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats Mastodon: https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon

There isn’t a 1:1 comparison. But the closest comparison looks like Mastodon is on a bit of a decline at 800k MAU. Bluesky is roughly 400k daily likers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That does not seem to know about Bluesky

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

It does, however, know about Mastodon.

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

Right, because FediDB tracks activitypub, which bluesky is not built upon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

...right but, as I said, Mastodon is. Which is what they asked about...

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

Oh, right. I guess I forgot all the individual questions. My bad.

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

Sure, but dari does not address 2/3rds of their answer. Just posting a link makes it seem like it does. You could've added that it only addresses Mastodon's user base from their answer and not Bluesky's nor wether they can communicate.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Dude, grow up.

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

that's for fediverse. not bluesky

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

They asked about Mastodon...

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

They do not federate with each other AFAIK, Mastodon's user base is in another user's answer, Bluesky's IDK except apparently one million more than before