11mo ago

With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts

www.nytimes.com

The big one seems to be BlueSky

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11mo ago

With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts

www.nytimes.com /2024/08/31/technology/x-blocked-brazil-reactions.html

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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.
- 9h32m as an average? That's highly unlikely.
- Gotta do something while resting on a luxurious beach and/or chained to a rain forest tree in protest.
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
- 4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.
  It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.
  
  Yep. Bluesky just got over 500k new users.
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.
- 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.
  
  That honestly sounds pretty good. But there are no followers on Lemmy, so the mechanism wouldn't make much sense here.
  
  But it'd be better if they were bringing that to the Fediverse instead of reinventing the wheel with ATP.
- 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.
Nice to wake up to some good news. wish they were not all going to bluesky though...
I wonder how things are going over at Lemmy.eco.br...
- Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn't have that Bluesky does.
  
  And account portability, I believe.
- 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.
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.
- "OpenVibe"
  Is closed
Mass adoption ? No, they "Mass to don't".
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