It *could* be, yes. But the attention this drama is getting, combined with my own anecdotal experience of a roughly 60/40 divide in favor of Core, suggests to me that if the spike in total node count was entirely organic, we would see an increase in both Core and Knots users.

But that's not what we see -- there is a very notable spike in node count since June 2025 and it is entirely due to new Knots users, or a sybil, or, more likely, both. So I do not assert that the growth is 100% due to a sybil, but even if only *some* of it is due to a sybil, then there *is* a sybil attack happening, which is precisely what my post is about.