The platform went dark across Brazil on Saturday, sending online commentators to new digital town squares.

The big one seems to be BlueSky

  • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
    92·
    2 months ago

    At nine hours and 32 minutes a day, Brazilians rank second globally in average daily internet use, just after South Africans,

    Jesus Christ, Brazil. Posting like it’s a full time job.

  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

    Eugen posted that Mastodon (or maybe m.s?) sign-ups from Brazil are up as well, but has anyone posted numbers/analysis?

    Edit: “Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.” - Gargron

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    252·
    2 months ago

    I don’t like BlueSky, but at least they don’t seem to be kowtowing to governments requesting censorship and aiding political candidates like Twitter does, so I guess it’s a step up.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

      The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        19·
        2 months ago

        That honestly sounds pretty good. But there are no followers on Lemmy, so the mechanism wouldn’t make much sense here.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
              9·
              2 months ago

              I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          There is still trolling and stalking. On Mastodon, blocking prevents the blocked person from seeing or replying to posts (while logged in) at least.

      • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        But it’d be better if they were bringing that to the Fediverse instead of reinventing the wheel with ATP.

    • diabolik@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I thought I read elsewhere that a fair amount were trying Mastodon too. I take both as wins, given that they could have chosen Threads or Facebook.

  • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Nice to wake up to some good news. wish they were not all going to bluesky though…

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    173·
    2 months ago

    Bluesky should stop pushing their own protocol and adopt ActivityPub and the Fediverse. They really don’t offer anything that Mastodon or even Threads already have. It’s another centralized mess in the making.

    • Spotlight7573@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn’t have that Bluesky does.

        • Omniraptor@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          (goose.jpg) portability to where?

          I’m a bsky fanboy normally but this is not a benefit. The functional part of bluesky is centralized. But they’re open source and an open protocol so technically anyone can build a replacement

    • moormaan@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO

      The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.

  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Came across Openvibe. Mobile client that works across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and soon, Threads. Not perfect, but a good start.

    May be one way to handle service migration fragmentation.

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