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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days. (www.theverge.com)

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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] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Non-twitter is fine in any form.

Gotta disagree with you there when it comes to Threads. We have seen how Meta is also trying to influence global politics. Threads should not be encouraged either. On top of that, their privacy policy is a nightmare.

https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Purely anecdotally from what I've been reading online, it seems most younger folks hate Threads.

Not necessarily because of privacy issues or social impact, mind you. They also think it just sucks to use, don't like the UI, don't like the content—which turned out to include a lot of people trying to build a personal brand and sell you things. Just like Instagram, where most users came from.

Excluding content details, Mastodon fails similarly. Requires learning, unsatisfactory UI, more difficult to find and engage with content you like.