there is no spike at all on @mastodonusercount, has anyone seen a single spike anywhere on the fedi from #Brazil yet?
@npub1egwq7glxu7rr7kjwf64zzdhm52lafk74ud0ap5w99syt3ntxcvzsxlnl2z @mastodonusercount you are seeing this post thru a bridge my friend. *THIS* is being posted in the fediverse by a mastodon account and then routed to you via https://momostr.pink
@liaizon i'm not expecting a spike at all, most people here have given up on trying to invite people to come here.
@liaizon @mastodonusercount @jalcine
There's been a tiny one by the looks for a few instances
@liaizon @mastodonusercount The operators of Bluesky claim they're having a spike
@mcc you think its fake? the president of brazil also posted bluesky as the first link to where they should be followed after the twitter ban
@liaizon No, I think it is real. However I phrased it like that because I don't know a way to independently confirm it.
They say the spike's quite big, tho.
@mcc seems like there is quite a lot of confirmation from what I am seeing from the likes of https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social
@liaizon Thanks for this link
https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/index.html
thats the best one, hooks directly into the firehose, lots of different graphs. and the spike is definitely real, also easy to confirm by feeds such as https://bsky.app/profile/laurenshof.online/feed/aaabovvkumeis
usually top posts of the day on bsky have like 2k to 3k likes, now its like 20k to 40 and all brazilian memes lol
(make sure to have portugese turned on in language setting)
also confirmed by official account, 500k new signups in 2 days
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l2ye7wjt662c
@liaizon@social.wake.st @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social there's kookie but their federation is disabled apparently so that doesnt count
@penny @mastodonusercount oh shit I hadn't seem that they turned off federation... why tho they were excited about being part of the fediverse
@liaizon@social.wake.st @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social i think people were fucking around with the mods from other servers (also https://piuvas.net/kookie (in portuguese)), either way they never stopped emitting their nodeinfo so you can track how many users and posts they have
@penny @mastodonusercount found the post where they announced it, thats super disappointing https://kookie.app/notes/9xib8dq5eczl19fk
@liaizon @penny @mastodonusercount the local timeline is busy RN!
They turned off federation because they don't have the moderation capabilities (for incoming federated content)
Their Nodeinfo states:
4600 users
with ~150000 posts!
@liaizon @mastodonusercount Bluesky's getting them all it looks like. Threads a little bit, Mastodon's not getting squat.
@liaizon There's maybe some pickup in activity at ursal.zone, which seems to be the only (federated) Brazilian Portuguese instance with over 100 MAU. I've asked the admin how to help.
https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/113055191266435136
@nemobis @liaizon there was almost four or five big migrations to the Fediverse of Brazilians I was responsible for the first big one, but as it happens often, people stay for a week or two, then go away, because need their algorithm fix. They never admit they are addicted and sick, it is always something else. "It's difficult" "It's boring" "People are hostile" (from people coming of X, lol)
We have also a public health issue to address that nobody seems to be paying attention.
@liaizon @mastodonusercount I don't think we will see a lot of people joining Mastodon, the difference from the last Twitter exodus is that we now have Bluesky and Threads, the journalists here only talk about the two options.
Everybody here in Brazil already have an Instagram account with their friends and connections, it is much easier to go to Threads and not have to think about servers and federation stuff.