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Maybe Bluesky has "won"

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461 points GavinAnderegg | 4 comments | 15 Nov 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.429s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. minimaxir ◴[15 Nov 24 21:52 UTC] No.42151592[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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3. someothherguyy ◴[15 Nov 24 23:04 UTC] No.42152294[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...

4. DecoySalamander ◴[16 Nov 24 11:28 UTC] No.42155870[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).