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blackjam_alex ,

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.

grte ,

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.

FlyingSquid ,
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Gotta do something while resting on a luxurious beach and/or chained to a rain forest tree in protest.

breakfastmtn , (edited )
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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 . 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

silence7 OP ,

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.

A_A ,
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Mass adoption ? No, they “Mass to don’t”.

FlyingSquid ,
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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.

Fapper_McFapper ,

And as an added bonus, no Elon Musk.

silence7 OP ,

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 ,

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

silence7 OP ,

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

antonim ,

Has that ever happened, though? I rarely see Mastodon comments here at all…

silence7 OP ,

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

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

diabolik ,
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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.

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