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@everton137 No, there wasn't a lot of discussion at #FediForum of the implications of and reasons for Brazilians signing up for #Bluesky instead of the ActivityPub based #fediverse.

I agree that it's not the similarities to Orkut aren't the main reason. Lula's tweet was certainly a big factor but it had already started before that. In https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/ I wrote

"Bluesky addresses many (although certainly not all) of the issues newcomers to the Mastodon faced in 2022, and has paid a lot of attention to onboarding and usability. So today's Bluesky is a much better Twitter alternative for most people than Mastodon of 2022 – or today's Mastodon."

and I'm planning on going in to detail on that in a follow-up post ... but, one simple example: there's only one Braziliian instances listed on joinmastodon.org. https://mastodon.br-linux.org/instancias/ is useful but how is anybody supposed to find it?

EDIT: I originally said that there aren't any Brazilian instances on joinmasstodon, which I had heard from multiple people, but turns out to be untrue -- there is one, a regional server focused on Curtiba. So I edited the previous paragraph appropriately.

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My take is that #bigtech social media became so much a part of the Brazilian culture that it is difficult for us to perceive the alternative. But a good part of the problem comes from Brazilian web entrepreneurs' addiction to #adtech.

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