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Bluesky continues to soar, adding 2M more new users in a matter of days | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty damned impressive they kept the lights on with 2M new users. Old Twitter would Blue-whale if you sneezed at it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

....but why?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Because Twitter was banned in Brazil (7th largest population in world).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do you know the history? Founded by Jack Dorsey if that rings a bell. It's kind of like when Reddit turned into garbage and lots of folks went to this place called... Lemmy.