2 weeks Ago By Jay Peters
X is currently banned in Brazil following from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to , an alternate social network, in droves. “Brazil, you’re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!” the official Bluesky account . “There will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues,” Bluesky developer .
“We’ve never seen traffic like this. Hang with us!” The looks and functions a lot like X, but it’s a decentralized social media platform that’s built on the AT Protocol (which is also developed by Bluesky). In , Frazee says that Bluesky is seeing 1,000 events per second — a “new milestone” — on its “ ,” which essentially functions as the firehose of data for the platform.
Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the corporation that runs Threads, which has links to the fediverse) didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment about whether they’re seeing increased usage as well. /.
