Brazil’s X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

X is presently banned successful Brazil pursuing an order from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users look to beryllium turning to Bluesky, an alternate societal network, successful droves.

“Brazil, you’re mounting caller all-time-highs for enactment connected Bluesky!” the authoritative Bluesky relationship says successful a post.

“There volition astir surely beryllium immoderate outages and show issues,” Bluesky developer Paul Frazee says. “We’ve ne'er seen postulation similar this. Hang with us!”

The Bluesky app looks and functions a batch similar X, but it’s a decentralized societal media level that’s built connected the AT Protocol (which is besides developed by Bluesky). In a 5:12PM ET post, Frazee says that Bluesky is seeing 1,000 events per 2nd — a “new milestone” — connected its “relay,” which fundamentally functions arsenic the firehose of information for the platform.

Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the corp that runs Threads, which has links to the fediverse) didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark astir whether they’re seeing accrued usage arsenic well.