Within two days of Brazil's X ban, Bluesky gained 500,000 users, with many also joining Mastodon and Threads. People often migrate to these (relatively) decentralized platforms to escape X, but this time, it wasn’t X pushing them away, they couldn’t use it.

Decentralized social media is always open to everyone.

Within two days of Brazil's X ban, Bluesky gained 500,000 users, with many also joining Mastodon and Threads. People often migrate to these (relatively) decentralized platforms to escape X, but this time, it wasn’t X pushing them away, they couldn’t use it.

Decentralized social media is always open to everyone.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232561/brazil-x-ban-sending-people-bluesky

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god damn farcaster should have milked this opportunity

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Yes, but, you know, it can be a bit challenging for non-English speakers to fit in here.

Chasing users fleeing another platform is not a long-term valuable strategy.

Effort is better spent trying to figure out the compelling reason for people to join the network independently.

If you have that, then you can use sudden external entropy to help grow.

But sign ups for the sake of sign ups don’t matter.

dan thinks otherwise

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x7d6f5d72

Farcaster has a starting price
The others dont
We have to learn something here