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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

by 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.