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Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by OneDeuxTriSeiGo » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 1:36 AM UTC

avibagla1 wrote: post #21

atlgator wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I checked out the author's other projects and this is common issue. For example, he has a "lean checker" for bluesky that claims it is right-leaning simply because of all the people saying "That's right," "He was right," etc. None of the supposed right-leaning posts were actually conservative in nature. They just used to word right to mean correct.

one, thank you for checking my website. two, that is the joke, 100% - at the time people kept talking about how "left leaning" bsky was and that idea came to mind

lmao that's fantastic

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by gumboshoes » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 1:42 AM UTC

avibagla1 wrote: post #19

wantlotsofcurry wrote: post #10

I'm very curious as to how this works in the backend. I realize it uses Bluesky's firehose to get the posts, but I'm more curious on how it's checking whether a post contains any of the available words. Any guesses?

Hey! this is my site - it's not all that complex, i'm just using a sqlite db with two tables - one for stats, the other for all the words that's just word | count | first use | last use | post. I... did not expect this to be so popular

What is your source dictionary to compare to? Seems kind of small. Also, how are you handling inflected forms?

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by psionides » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 1:44 AM UTC

refreeze654 wrote: post #27

I've wondered how blueksy affords the bandwidth to let anyone stream the full firehose.

From what they say, it is a lot, but it's generally on the order of a few hundreds of connections total at the moment

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by blintz » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 1:51 AM UTC

I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by gkoberger » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 1:54 AM UTC

blintz wrote: post #34

I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.

For what it's worth, there's 1.7bn posts on Bluesky according to this: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

The dictionary site has only checked 4,920,000 posts, which is 0.28% of all messages.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by k7sune » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:02 AM UTC

Kye wrote: post #9

75345d4c wrote: post #7

I just saw it indexed "eluvium," but the post was referring to a band with that same name

GeologySky will get to it soon enough.

Thanks to this I just learned about alluvium, eluvium, illuvium, and colluvium.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by fudged71 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

I'm just surprised that there's revolt when Bluesky posts are used for LLMs, but regular NLP is fine for some reason.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:37 AM UTC

refreeze654 wrote: post #27

I've wondered how blueksy affords the bandwidth to let anyone stream the full firehose.

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Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by Noumenon72 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

accrual wrote: post #8

neaden wrote: post #2

Is this not working or am I missing something, it just shows as seeing 0 words for me. Firefox on a PC.

You may need to allow scripts from the domain avibagla.com, it shows 0 when the scripts are blocked.

All the scripts are ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR for me in Chrome, I'm assuming because of a corporate firewall.

Re: The Bluesky Dictionary

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Post by dymk » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 2:53 AM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #30

rafram wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it updates live...

It could do both...

then go build it…