[sneed_chucker]

This whole BlueSky thing feels inorganic.

[consumer451]

PG appears to differ [0].

From my pov, this is the best hacker story in recent times. A small group of protocol nerds are overtaking Zuck and Musk, the most powerful people on the planet. This is hacker af. [1]

[0] https://x.com/paulg/status/1858122600934752464

[1] A dev team of 20 people are the #1 app in App and Play Stores, while open source and fully remote. Heck yes. This is an amazing story. It should be front page every day.

[dyauspitr]

Feels very organic actually considering it has been around for a while now and people are only now beginning to move to it in droves.

[morkalork]

It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?

[bsder]

I don't know about "inorganic", but something definitely happened.

I only tangentially heard of BlueSky and now suddenly it's everywhere.

I mean ... SiriusXM (hardly a forerunner of fashion) just had one of the DJs mention BlueSky.

Something is definitely up.

[nrb]

Why is it so unbelievable to you that a different platform with seemingly happy users could have a viral moment through word of mouth, right as a whole lot of people are actively seeking alternatives?

Let’s put it this way: if a huge amount of people suddenly find themselves done with twitter, what serious alternatives are there beside Bluesky?

[tim333]

>Something is definitely up.

Well duh - the figurehead of X buddied up with Trump so the dems are leaving.

[inpdx]

It's grown slowly and deliberately. It only broke out because of the election and Elon's antics. Feels about as organic as it can get.