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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.

Retr0id 2y ago
They make it to the HN front page every so often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app
- alecco 2y ago
  The top links are mostly from the past week. And a lot of links are about Bluesky itself.
  - Retr0id 2y ago
    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.
  - ihuman 2y ago
    Only a few of the top links are from the past week https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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minimaxir 2y ago
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.
- Kiro 2y ago
  Do you have any examples of articles with Bsky embeds?
  - Maxious 2y ago
    https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-intention-train-generative-ai-posts 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-bluesky-react-and-the-social-internet https://podhunt.app/episodes/2755/dan-abramov-on-working-at-...
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- aqfamnzc 2y ago
  Wait, did I miss something that happened just over a week ago?
  - minimaxir 2y ago
    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.
    - someothherguyy 2y ago
      Looks like pretty steady growth since August, with a burst this week. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-bluesky-moraes-threads-meta-social-media-01d4db0f1311e98f1385e544ea47fa36 https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-bluesky-moraes-thre...
  - DecoySalamander 2y ago
MiguelX413 2y ago
I see a few in some Telegram chats that I'm in
CSSer 2y ago
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.
Starlevel004 2y ago
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
donohoe 2y ago
Thats a factor of time given how new it is - and likely inevitable.
af78 2y ago
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.
- emseetech 2y ago
  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.
lamontcg 2y ago
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.
ZeroGravitas 2y ago
I saw my first local news story sourced to someone posting about something he photographed in the street to bluesky yesterday.
consumer451 2y ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136408 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app

Retr0id 2y ago

They make it to the HN front page every so often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app

alecco 2y ago
The top links are mostly from the past week. And a lot of links are about Bluesky itself.
- Retr0id 2y ago
  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.
- ihuman 2y ago
  Only a few of the top links are from the past week https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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minimaxir 2y ago

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.

Kiro 2y ago
Do you have any examples of articles with Bsky embeds?
- Maxious 2y ago
  https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-intention-train-generative-ai-posts 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-bluesky-react-and-the-social-internet https://podhunt.app/episodes/2755/dan-abramov-on-working-at-...
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aqfamnzc 2y ago
Wait, did I miss something that happened just over a week ago?
- minimaxir 2y ago
  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.
  - someothherguyy 2y ago
    Looks like pretty steady growth since August, with a burst this week. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-bluesky-moraes-threads-meta-social-media-01d4db0f1311e98f1385e544ea47fa36 https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-bluesky-moraes-thre...
- DecoySalamander 2y ago

MiguelX413 2y ago

I see a few in some Telegram chats that I'm in

CSSer 2y ago

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.

Starlevel004 2y ago

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

donohoe 2y ago

Thats a factor of time given how new it is - and likely inevitable.

af78 2y ago

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.

emseetech 2y ago
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.

lamontcg 2y ago

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.

ZeroGravitas 2y ago

I saw my first local news story sourced to someone posting about something he photographed in the street to bluesky yesterday.

consumer451 2y ago

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136408 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app