Maybe Bluesky has "won"

Recent and related:

How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147430 - Nov 2024 (42 comments)

1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144340 - Nov 2024 (109 comments)

Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129768 - Nov 2024 (44 comments)

Ask HN: Will Bluesky become more popular than Twitter? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129171 - Nov 2024 (13 comments)

Visualizing 13M Bluesky users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118180 - Nov 2024 (236 comments)

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Bluesky Is Not Decentralized - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994 - Oct 2024 (194 comments)

There are lots more...

Is there going to be a plan for this blatant PR campaign and site manipulation? Is this not against HN's terms?

There is a seismic shift happening, involving millions of users.

Also, this is a seemingly great underdog story. First open source app to top the App Store, a tiny scrappy team of protocol nerds takes on the most powerful people in the world...

What leads you to believe that people posting about this is not organic?

Anecdotally, I have submitted a few stories about Bluesky, and I am paid nothing.

Not the person you're asking, but my answer: VC funding. A bit ironic to say given the website we're on... but the benefits are there for the taking. Also: a decentralized service that isn't, actually, that decentralized.

The same reasons I see manipulation, I also see legitimate moves. It's loaded as can be. The iron is extremely hot given Elmo and everything with the election.

This entire conversation breaks HN guidelines about meta/moderation.. but if anything, I believe that some recent Bsky posts have been getting kicked down the rankings by mods, a bit.