After the Brazilian Supreme Court judge’s ruling to ban X (formerly Twitter), it seems that Brazilian users have taken to Bluesky’s social network in a big way.
“Brazilians, you are setting new records for the amount of activity on BlueSky!” the official BlueSky account posted.
Paul Fraser“We’re definitely going to see outages and performance issues,” says developer Bluesky. Because we have never experienced such traffic. Be with us!”
The Bluesky application is very similar to X in terms of appearance and performance, but it is actually a decentralized social platform built on the AT protocol.
Fraser says Bluesky is seeing 1,000 events per second, which is a new milestone for the platform.
Decentralized social network Mastodon and MetaTrader have yet to comment on whether they have experienced a traffic boost due to X being blocked in Brazil.