With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts

9h32m as an average? That's highly unlikely.

Gotta do something while resting on a luxurious beach and/or chained to a rain forest tree in protest.

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

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I thought I read elsewhere that a fair amount were trying Mastodon too. I take both as wins, given that they could have chosen Threads or Facebook.

Composable moderation/custom labeling and custom algorithmic feeds are two things that Mastodon doesn't have that Bluesky does.

This is informative on the differences between the ActivityPub any AT protocols: https://youtu.be/-R9CWq5CBlk?si=BzW7c5U0WXH8VxrO

The intro explains some history and things which ppl here probably already know, but overall I find it provides a pretty good analysis of the current social media landscape, and these two protocols in particular.

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