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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but how do we know that BlueSky isn't padding their stats with internal bots? I could see this being a viable strategy to attract users and overcome the social network bootstrapping problem.

[–] c10l@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They could be, but 2M new Brazilian users after Twitter’s block there actually seems quite low and definitely credible.