X ban in Brazil is causing many people to switch to BlueSky

X is currently banned in Brazil an order from a Supreme Court judge, and Brazilian users are turning to Blue SkyAn alternative social network, with a large number of…

“Brazil, you are setting new all-time highs for activity on BlueSky!” Official BlueSky Account A post said,

“There will definitely be some lag and performance issues,” the BlueSky developer said. Paul Frazee says“We’ve never seen traffic like this before. Stay tuned!”

BlueSky App X looks and functions similarly, but it is a decentralized social media platform built on the AT protocol (also developed by BlueSky). Posted at 5:12PM ETFrazee says BlueSky is seeing “1,000 events per second on its radar — a new milestone.”RelayWhich essentially acts as a firehose of data for the platform.

Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the company that runs Threads, which has links to the Fediverse) did not immediately respond to requests for comment about whether they too are seeing a surge in usage.