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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] 379 points 2 months ago (64 children)

I'm sad that a lot of people couldn't perceive the mastodon in the room.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Frankly? I'm happy that they didn't end in Mastodon. Most of those users would have negative value there, and in the Fediverse as a whole.

Twitter was always a cesspool of assumptive, entitled, whiny, nationalistic, context-illiterate users, who'd spend most of their time finding reasons to screech at each other (and at you) than sharing interesting content. That's regardless of language, but it was specially egregious among Brazilian users there. And it got only worse when Musk bought it, as suddenly the alt right users felt themselves justified to soapbox nonstop there.

Most people with a shred of dignity got the fuck out of that shithole ages ago. The ones not doing so were, most of the time, the ones saying "this is fine, this is how it's supposed to be". And those are the ones migrating to Bluesky now.

Someone might say "but we could integrate them into Mastodon. They'd behave better." Well... we're talking about a large horde of users, they'd be more likely to bring the place down than let the place bring them up. Eternal September style.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I was a redditor pre Eternal September. That was the beginning of the end for old reddit.

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

I was a redditor pre Eternal September.

The point of Eternal September is that it happens all the time, so when was that?

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

The point of Eternal September is that it happens all the time, so when was that?

Kind of - it doesn't happen "all" the time; it has a beginning, but no end.

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

If you consider it's the influx of new users, then yes, it does happen all the time. Do you have a different definition?

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

What's "eternal" in "Eternal September" is not the influx of new users, but rather the disruption of the social norms caused by a huge and sudden influx of new users.

That disruption started in 1993, and never ended. So it had a beginning but no end as of yet.

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