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.

    • L3ft_F13ld!English
      25•3 months ago

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

      • @wesley@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
        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.

        • L3ft_F13ld!English
          3•3 months ago

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