Bluesky is an alternative to Twitter amid Musk x Moraes – 04/11/2024 – #Hashtag

The series of statements by Elon Musk against Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) and the apparent clash between the billionaire owner of Twitter, now X, with the Judiciary, led some Twitterers to look for alternatives. Bluesky, a direct competitor to Twitter, saw a spike in Brazilian users in recent days: more than 100,000 new accounts were opened.

The accession of Brazilians in this short period made the network of Jack Dorsey, creator and co-founder of Twitter, reach the level of 5.5 million users around the world. Although the “blue sky network” is now experiencing this growth in its Brazilian share, it is not entirely new.

“Brazil has always been important for Bluesky”, says the network to the #Hashtaghighlighting that the Brazilian community was one of the first to buy the new feature, back in 2023, when Blue had less than 20 thousand users.

And some Brazilians continued to be active there, “helping to create an internal culture of jokes and memes”, they say, in response to questions the blog asked the platform.

Anyone who arrives at Bluesky now realizes that the Brazilian community on the network already has its own internal jokes and vocabulary. For example, what on other networks is called “trend”, on Bluesky it is called “train”: “thigh train”, “strangest combination of foods you like train”, “age train ” and so on. The “trains” are a way for Brazilian users to meet each other.

Right away, Bluesky reminds me of old-school Twitter. The interface is very similar and the proposal is similar: generating a continuous flow of short posts and conversations between users. But, highlights Dorsey’s network, the similarities end there.

“Bluesky is different from Twitter in key ways,” they explain. In addition to the platform being able to actively moderate posts containing harassment, hate speech and fake news, users themselves can select which types of content they do not want to see, which they call “composite moderation”.

Moderation, according to Bluesky, is the backbone for a healthy social network. The platform has a global team of moderators and a local team is responsible for evaluating Brazilian posts.

In addition to moderation, Bluesky highlights that it aims to give greater autonomy to users, who can create customized feeds to gather content around topics that interest them. The feeds can be followed by others and, thus, a community is created around different topics.

Still young, however, the platform does not include tools beloved by many users, such as videos and gifs, basic features on other networks.

It remains to be seen whether the wave of new Brazilian users will “revenge” and whether they will continue to be active or whether it is just a passing wave, while the clash between Elon Musk unfolds, who was included by Moraes as being investigated in the investigation that investigates the existence of digital militias. antidemocratic policies and their financing.

FIND OUT HOW TO JOIN BLUESKY

1. In your preferred browser, go to bsky.app. You can also download the app from the Apple Store, for iOS, or the Play Store, for Android.
2. Click on “Create a New Account”
3. Select the provider. The default is Bluesky’s own provider, but you can select your own provider, if you have one.
4. Once registered, you can choose the @ of your profile and then you can customize the look, enter the information you want about yourself, as well as search for other users you want to follow on the network.

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