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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 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] TacoEvent 24 points 3 months 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] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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