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X is currently banned in Brazil following an order<\/a> from a Supreme Court justice, and Brazilian users seem to be turning to Bluesky<\/a>, an alternate social network, in droves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBrazil, you\u2019re setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!\u201d the official Bluesky account says in a post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThere will almost certainly be some outages and performance issues,\u201d Bluesky developer Paul Frazee says<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen traffic like this. Hang with us!\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Bluesky app<\/a> looks and functions a lot like X, but it\u2019s a decentralized social media platform that\u2019s built on the AT Protocol (which is also developed by Bluesky). In a 5:12PM ET post<\/a>, Frazee says that Bluesky is seeing 1,000 events per second \u2014 a \u201cnew milestone\u201d \u2014 on its \u201crelay<\/a>,\u201d which essentially functions as the firehose of data for the platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the corporation that runs Threads, which has links to the fediverse) didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment about whether they\u2019re seeing increased usage as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n