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This whole BlueSky thing feels inorganic.

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dyauspitr 2y ago
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 2y ago
  It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
  - SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
    Call it a tipping point, call it a collective action problem finally being resolved, snowballing, viral liftoff, or belittle it and call it a "herd stampede" if you really want. But those are all "organic" phenomena. The grandparent comment that called it "inorganic" seems to be mistaken.
    - danielbln 2y ago
      There is this cynical (and maybe often warranted) take that any sudden uptake or virality is astro-turfing or I inorganic or shilling. Not the case here though, I see it myself how basically all my old Twitter communities have migrated and things are really vibrant. Block lists, mute words and starter packs mean I we exactly what I want to see, which adds to the appeal.
  - rsynnott 2y ago
    It’s been a while since someone has wilfully destroyed a thing that has an obvious replacement. Last one was probably Digg.
    - morkalork 2y ago
      I was a highschool senior when Facebook came out, back when you needed an email with a university's domain name to sign up. That one was driven by pure FOMO. Everyone's older friends were on it and going to cool frat parties and you were just stuck on the outside looking in. LiveJournal and Myspace had nothing on that.
bsder 2y ago
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 2y ago
  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?
  - seattleeng 2y ago
    I actually think there are a few, only some have achieved critical mass with smaller subnetworks. BlueSky and Threads both seem to have attracted non-tech networks although Threads downranked political content, so BlueSky seems like the natural next mass appeal product. Others: Mastodon: many tech subnetworks (security, data) Nostr and Warpcast: Crypto
- tim333 2y ago
  >Something is definitely up. Well duh - the figurehead of X buddied up with Trump so the dems are leaving.
consumer451 2y ago
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 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.
inpdx 2y ago
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.

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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 2y ago
It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago
  Call it a tipping point, call it a collective action problem finally being resolved, snowballing, viral liftoff, or belittle it and call it a "herd stampede" if you really want. But those are all "organic" phenomena. The grandparent comment that called it "inorganic" seems to be mistaken.
  - danielbln 2y ago
    There is this cynical (and maybe often warranted) take that any sudden uptake or virality is astro-turfing or I inorganic or shilling. Not the case here though, I see it myself how basically all my old Twitter communities have migrated and things are really vibrant. Block lists, mute words and starter packs mean I we exactly what I want to see, which adds to the appeal.
- rsynnott 2y ago
  It’s been a while since someone has wilfully destroyed a thing that has an obvious replacement. Last one was probably Digg.
  - morkalork 2y ago
    I was a highschool senior when Facebook came out, back when you needed an email with a university's domain name to sign up. That one was driven by pure FOMO. Everyone's older friends were on it and going to cool frat parties and you were just stuck on the outside looking in. LiveJournal and Myspace had nothing on that.

bsder 2y ago

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 2y ago
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?
- seattleeng 2y ago
  I actually think there are a few, only some have achieved critical mass with smaller subnetworks. BlueSky and Threads both seem to have attracted non-tech networks although Threads downranked political content, so BlueSky seems like the natural next mass appeal product. Others: Mastodon: many tech subnetworks (security, data) Nostr and Warpcast: Crypto
tim333 2y ago
>Something is definitely up. Well duh - the figurehead of X buddied up with Trump so the dems are leaving.

consumer451 2y ago

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 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.

inpdx 2y ago

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.