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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.

Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Bluesky is built on an open source ActivityPub alternative called "AT Protocol". However, Bluesky itself is not open source* and afaik does not yet federate with any other software. The company is a "public benefit corporation".

From my understanding, Bluesky has good moderation, to the point where Jack Dorsey (the Twitter founder) condemned it and withdrew from the project. That's a big plus in my book.

Another commenter pointed out that some parts of it are open source, such as the apps and at least some parts of the backend. Im not sure to what extent the backend is open source.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bluesky has opt-in federation with the fediverse: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-can-now-talk-to-each-other-with-bridgy-fed/

https://mastodon.social/@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

It's a third-party project, not an opt-in feature of Bluesky.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, Dorsey left? That might actually make it interesting

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, and he soon after started praising musk and Twitter, calling it "freedom software" lol. Him leaving was what drew my attention, I like the way it's heading so far.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bluesky itself is not open source

Am I missing something? https://github.com/bluesky-social

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

As far as I understand, the protocol and client apps are completely open souce. I do not believe the Bluesky software is open source, so you could not host an instance the same way you would with Mastodon. I could be missing something or not underatanding, but that's what it seems to me.