Was there any talk or discussion at the #FediForum about the banning of #X in #Brazil, and the massive migration of Brazilians to #BlueSky?
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Was there any talk or discussion at the #FediForum about the banning of #X in #Brazil, and the massive migration of Brazilians to #BlueSky?
I've heard more than once today the question why Brazilians went to Bluesky. I've heard some ideas like Bluesky resembles Orkut, an old social network platform of Google that was very poorly in Brazil 20 years ago. I think that's false.
I don't have a clear answer to this phenomenon, but it would be very interesting to listen to what other people think.
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@everton137 nevermind Orkut, Bluesky has a literal clone of Twitter's UI. Plus it's to all intents and purposes a centralised service with a single place to sign up and to interact with everyone on the platform, unlike the Fediverse where it's necessary to think about which instance to join, understand what federation is and why you can't necessarily talk to everyone else, etc.
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@everton137 it was mentioned in some sessions
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@thisismissem nice! I hope it was recorded or someone wrote about it. We had one of the biggest countries in the world very connected to the Internet being forced to leave x, but just a few, as compared to Bluesky, really joined the Fediverse. That's a really important case to be forgotten, and I think it can have several lessons, if you are going to build a really decentralized Internet.
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@everton137 it came up in the joint panel with @berlinfediday, where I referenced the legal challenges of operating social media, I guess that was recorded, the rest will be in the notes published by @fediforum