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.

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.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    663·
    3 months ago

    the last time I tried to make a mastodon account I had to type a paragraph about why i want an account and then wait for an email approval and I don’t know what the hell happened because I forgot to look for the email and by now I don’t give a shit

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      122·
      3 months ago

      When you try do sign up on the Mastodon app it defaults to and recommends mastodon.social, which does nothing of this sort. The average user will just keep this default and be fine.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Since I was a poor little kid in the slums of Nairobi with no internet access I dreamed about having a <service> account. […]

        • wesleyEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          And it’s also a way for topic focused servers to filter out signups as well. There are general purpose instances with open sign ups that don’t do that.