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So the migration is starting. You have quite a few journalists and news feeds that post on bluesky. Phil Lewis and Aaron Rupar (two fairly notable US liberal j

So the migration is starting. You have quite a few journalists and news feeds that post on bluesky. Phil Lewis and Aaron Rupar (two fairly notable US liberal journalists that have substantial followings on twitter) are on bluesky and now that video has started rolling out they have become more active again. And not a "serious" set of accounts by any means but the consensus from the vtuber community (which is to be honest one of the massive communities on twitter) is that they'd start moving over to bluesky once video support and some degree of moderation were in place. I suspect a lot of the other fairly cohesive niches on twitter will start looking at bluesky now for the same reasons.

Kye 2y ago
Significant portions of Brazil's government and media are on there as well, including the president and one of the top news programs in the country. The latter caused a huge spike of growth all on its own by putting its handle in broadcasts. https://bsky.app/profile/lula.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/lula.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/jnoficial.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jnoficial.bsky.social And the most important: Duolingo. https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br
- diggan 2y ago
  > https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br Is that actually the real Duolingo? duolingo.com is managed by "Amazon Registrar, Inc." with masked owner, while "duolingobrasil.com.br" seems to be managed by CloudFlare and owned by "JOTACOM COMUNICACAO E PUBLICIDADE LTDA" which seems to be a marketing agency based on Brazil. If that account was really official duolingo, I'd expect it to use the official duolingo.com domain for verification. Instead it's using a domain created in 2024-09-09 and people on Bluesky treats it as the official duolingo page? What's the point of using domains as verification when people just ignore it outright?
  - pfraze 2y ago
    It's their Brazil marketing team. Thus the .com.br.
    - Kye 2y ago
      It's also consistent with their other socials which is probably why they did that rather than ask the DNS people for the other Duolingo br domain to add it.

Kye 2y ago

Significant portions of Brazil's government and media are on there as well, including the president and one of the top news programs in the country. The latter caused a huge spike of growth all on its own by putting its handle in broadcasts. https://bsky.app/profile/lula.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/lula.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/jnoficial.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jnoficial.bsky.social And the most important: Duolingo. https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br

diggan 2y ago
> https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br Is that actually the real Duolingo? duolingo.com is managed by "Amazon Registrar, Inc." with masked owner, while "duolingobrasil.com.br" seems to be managed by CloudFlare and owned by "JOTACOM COMUNICACAO E PUBLICIDADE LTDA" which seems to be a marketing agency based on Brazil. If that account was really official duolingo, I'd expect it to use the official duolingo.com domain for verification. Instead it's using a domain created in 2024-09-09 and people on Bluesky treats it as the official duolingo page? What's the point of using domains as verification when people just ignore it outright?
- pfraze 2y ago
  It's their Brazil marketing team. Thus the .com.br.
  - Kye 2y ago
    It's also consistent with their other socials which is probably why they did that rather than ask the DNS people for the other Duolingo br domain to add it.