Instance has been down all day so i haven't seen if there have been any Brazilians hopping on the fedi, but dang, elon really will lose an entire country that has the 6th most users and all the ad revenue that brings overnight just to be an edgelord - https://bsky.app/profile/sophifn.bsky.social/post/3l2tgdvfhxn2v
@jonny yeah wow he’s happy to censor on behalf of authoritarian governments in Turkey and India but draws the line at obeying legal orders in this case, what’s with that?
@laurenshof has a three discussing fedi’s lack of reaction (so far). Bluesky by contrast is booming, Lula involved a link to his account there as well as insta, TikTok, threads, etc
https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/113045668161154399
@jdp23 @laurenshof yeah, i mean i get why no politician would ever want anything to do with the fedi, so idk what kind of social leadership role Lula plays in Brazil but if any then makes sense why ppl would head to bsky, and also agree with what some in that thread are saying re: momentum, if your friends are going somewhere of course you'll go there too. it is generally the case that bluesky seems to work like "only one to three topics on the whole site and that's the only thing that is visible per day," which is fine and has its pros and cons and making everyone aware of something is definitely one of the pros. i don't really see that much of a need for competition - if ppl are happy there, great, it isn't a fascist informational weapon yet, wish them well. getting everyone on the fedi isn't my fight, opposing economies of extraction is, so i hope the move to bsky is fast and complete.
Agreed that getting on everybody on fedi isn't my fight, and for that matter these days I think of Bluesky as a fedi instance (it's linked more closely than Threads and as closely as Diaspora). As a first instance for people who like microbloggeing to explore fedi, it's a lot better than mastodon.social -- their onboarding is a heck of a lot better, they've added some tools for people to protect themselves, BTS Army is for people who are into that. And they're not yet an economy of extraction (although given their funding probably will turn into at some point).
Still from the perspective of Mastodon and the "bigger is better" ActivityPub protocol boys, this really should be a splash of cold water in the face. Even before Apartheid Clyde, the pattern was that Twitter screwups lead to surges in Mastodon signups. Now ... not so much, apparently.
@jonny @laurenshof
