"In the wake of that change, X competitor BlueSky announced that it had seen more than 100,000 new signups."

"It didn’t even crash when all of Brazil showed up in August."

We might be seeing some new folks show up today, so let's all give them a warm welcome!

#fediverse #twitter #x #welcome

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I think it's a little telling that the entire 'decentralized' network can go down but then I figure we might get similar headlines if mastodon.social went down
If you'd like to share a concise, beginner-friendly introduction to #Mastodon with your friends considering to leave X, give this a try!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/
- @stefan@stefanbohacek.online bsky is crashing a bit right now.
  
  Truth be told, I am looking into adding bsky support to this software too but its too different and a lot of work
- Thanks everyone for sharing this!
  
  And mind you, I wrote this about Mastodon because that's what I have been using for the past nearly two years.
  
  I also made https://jointhefediverse.net, but wanted to follow that up with what I have learned.
  
  If anyone has a good, simple, non-technical guide for other platforms, please do share it, I would love to link to it!
- @stefan@stefanbohacek.online I shared this on X 😀
  
  @drfootleg Ha, thank you, hope this inspires someone!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online this is your friend's doing, @writeblankspace@shonk.social 😜
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online fuck X :)

also known as Xapocalypse or Xexit or MusXit
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online make that 500,000. Twitter must have done something pretty unpopular

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