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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] nutsack 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nutsack -1 points 2 weeks ago

im not sure what happened i think i was taking a shit

[–] eager_eagle 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't even know Mastodon has an exclusive club streak lol.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just like Lemmy, some Mastodon instances have measures in place to try and prevent bots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I got into Fosstodon right before they went invite only. And then I moved to a Sharkey instance.