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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] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Also a bunch of hinky weirdness and slowness.

The Technology Connections guy (Alec) threw some shade on Mastodon yesterday that seemed like a good example:

My favorite thing about Bluesky is that I haven't gotten a stream of notifications that I've been tagged in a post on a weird fork of the software which my client doesn't parse correctly so I only see one side of a conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought his name was Alec, not Alex.

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

It is. Autocorrect and bad proofreading. Thanks, fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Jah, cool! Yeah there's a whole other set of problems for people with real followings... Not good