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    Maybe Bluesky has "won"

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    461 points GavinAnderegg | 23 comments | 15 Nov 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 2.991s | source | bottom
    1. throwaway48476 ◴[15 Nov 24 20:22 UTC] No.42150518[source]▶
    n=1 but I've never seen a bluesky content link in the wild. I've seen lots of people talking about bluesky or moving to bluesky though.
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    2. Retr0id ◴[15 Nov 24 20:28 UTC] No.42150599[source]▶
    They make it to the HN front page every so often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app
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    3. ◴[15 Nov 24 20:30 UTC] No.42150615[source]▶
    4. minimaxir ◴[15 Nov 24 20:33 UTC] No.42150664[source]▶
    It takes a bit for content to go viral. Bluesky was mostly irrelevant until just over a week ago.

    Since then I've seen plenty of Bluesky embeds in articles where there wouild have been Twitter/X embeds.

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    5. alecco ◴[15 Nov 24 20:36 UTC] No.42150699[source]▶
    The top links are mostly from the past week. And a lot of links are about Bluesky itself.
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    6. MiguelX413 ◴[15 Nov 24 20:37 UTC] No.42150717[source]▶
    I see a few in some Telegram chats that I'm in
    7. Retr0id ◴[15 Nov 24 20:44 UTC] No.42150786{3}[source]▶
    That's about what I'd expect from a network that's also undergone exponential growth in the past ~week, while still being much smaller than e.g. twitter in absolute terms.
    8. ihuman ◴[15 Nov 24 20:51 UTC] No.42150876{3}[source]▶
    Only a few of the top links are from the past week https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    9. ◴[15 Nov 24 21:45 UTC] No.42151512[source]▶
    10. aqfamnzc ◴[15 Nov 24 21:45 UTC] No.42151516[source]▶
    Wait, did I miss something that happened just over a week ago?
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    11. CSSer ◴[15 Nov 24 21:46 UTC] No.42151522[source]▶
    People do that when feel it's socially acceptable to do so. It feels like it could be a matter of time. A million people joined in a 24 hour period yesterday.
    12. Starlevel004 ◴[15 Nov 24 21:46 UTC] No.42151526[source]▶
    Saw one for a sports journalist on a subreddit. I think that's a clear sign of it making it, given how twitter and reddit are joined at the hip
    13. Kiro ◴[15 Nov 24 21:47 UTC] No.42151541[source]▶
    Do you have any examples of articles with Bsky embeds?
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    14. minimaxir ◴[15 Nov 24 21:52 UTC] No.42151592{3}[source]▶
    The U.S. Presidential election and its outcome on November 5th was the inflection point for the significant migration from X to Bluesky, as a) many were staying on Twitter/X only for the real-time news and discussion about the election results which ended up not being that interesting due to the Trump sweep and b) the results in favor of Trump will give Elon more power and make Twitter/X more insufferable.
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    15. donohoe ◴[15 Nov 24 22:03 UTC] No.42151689[source]▶
    Thats a factor of time given how new it is - and likely inevitable.
    16. someothherguyy ◴[15 Nov 24 23:04 UTC] No.42152294{4}[source]▶
    Looks like pretty steady growth since August, with a burst this week.

    https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

    https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-bluesky-moraes-thre...

    17. af78 ◴[15 Nov 24 23:53 UTC] No.42152716[source]▶
    Another data point. When Musk bought twitter and started wrecking it, several people I followed created an account on blue sky but most did not use it that much. This seems to have changed over the past week (i.e. after the US election). Dozens of users have moved, pro-Ukraine people in particular. Some double post. As certain content creators move, others do the same, amplifying the trend. It's interesting to see network effects at play.
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    18. lamontcg ◴[16 Nov 24 02:53 UTC] No.42153726[source]▶
    US soccer journalists seem to have migrated to bluesky en masse, and I just saw a very active thread, with a bunch of names that I recognized, cross posted to reddit.

    That is definitely a quantum jump beyond a bunch of geeks posting about rust or whatever.

    19. prisenco ◴[16 Nov 24 03:20 UTC] No.42153850[source]▶
    Feels like the early days of the digg -> reddit migration in 2010 or so.

    Network effects are so powerful at keeping people in, but they have the ability to turn a trickle into a flood when it comes to depopulating a service. The big social networks were so big we thought they were unstoppable, so I'm interested to see if we can still see a shift like that in this day and age.

    20. Maxious ◴[16 Nov 24 10:43 UTC] No.42155725{3}[source]▶
    https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-inte...

    Bsky have some pretty good frontend devs ;) https://podhunt.app/episodes/2755/dan-abramov-on-working-at-...

    21. DecoySalamander ◴[16 Nov 24 11:28 UTC] No.42155870{3}[source]▶
    Twitter/X changed the TOS so that it's now impossible to opt out of having your posts used to train their in-house model "Grok". This caused an exodus of artists (and their followers).
    22. ZeroGravitas ◴[16 Nov 24 13:19 UTC] No.42156258[source]▶
    I saw my first local news story sourced to someone posting about something he photographed in the street to bluesky yesterday.
    23. consumer451 ◴[16 Nov 24 14:44 UTC] No.42156687[source]▶
    This was true for my n=1 as well, until recently.

    Search Reddit for "bluesky" and you will find a ton from the last month. Reddit does OCR on screenshots, so that is included.

    Also, one of my highest upvoted comments on this site happens to be one. [0]

    And finally, quite a few Bluesky content links have been submitted here recently [1]

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136408

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app