The visualization looks absolutely fantastic. Great work. Would love to dive deeper into the tech behind it. I'll just share some irony. They say X/Twitter is full of people spreading hate speech. I just logged in into my old BlueSky account. My entire feed is full of people saying how much they _hate_ X/Twitter.
Hate speech is derogatory or harmful speech targeted at a marginalized community. Hating a company or product is not the same thing.
Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
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#32Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…
I yet to find "utility" accounts on Bluesky. I use Twitter to follow news from games, game studios and publishers, news sites, bands, NASA etc. There is nothing like there yet and I don't care about random people (as I don't care about them on Twitter either) I check time to time but basically it's 0/50
You will find a lot of games, studios and bands on Threads.
Since it leverages Instagram and has pretty fantastic photo features.
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#33Love this kind of post! I was surprised to see you really can drink from the firehose: brew install websocat websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos ...haven't tried to decode it, though.
I hadn't come across this before, looking forward to exploring a new tool. Thanks!
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#34Is the "scraper" still running? If so, how many users are there today?
there are a other few places tracking those stats too; I just counted 14487454 in my database :)
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hate speech is derogatory or harmful speech targeted at a marginalized community. Hating a company or product is not the same thing.
I just clicked "Discover" to see popular posts. https://bsky.app/profile/lepapillonblue.bsky.social/post/3la... https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3larj... https://bsky.app/profile/browneyedsusan.bsky.social/post/3la...
None of that is remotely close to hate speech. President Trump is not a marginalized community.
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#36The visualization looks absolutely fantastic. Great work. Would love to dive deeper into the tech behind it. I'll just share some irony. They say X/Twitter is full of people spreading hate speech. I just logged in into my old BlueSky account. My entire feed is full of people saying how much they _hate_ X/Twitter.
While I don't think it's technically hate speech, but yeah bluesky is either just unanimous negativity or positivity for different things, and it feels like groupthink. There is no middle ground.
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#38The best thing about Bluesky is you can use your domain as your username. I'm @bradgessler.com on there, so if people want to "verify" me, they see something more meaningful than a blue checkbox, which is my website.
If I ever get blocked, banned, deplatformed, whatever—people would see my domain and be able to go there to determine what's going on. In a sense it's "censorship-evident".
I think this will be great for businesses—it's so much more less ambiguous if I can @example.com a business and get a response. I put a starter pack together of SaaS built on Rails that's already doing this at https://go.bsky.app/JQyXa2u
I really like what BlueSky is doing and hope it doesn't get enshitified as the future plays out. Even if it does, it seems like now is a goldilocks moment where things are feeling really good there.
I highly recommend spending the 5 minutes it takes to setup an account and point it at your domain.
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#39Bluesky to me still seems like a place completely dominated by software type (HN crowd). I know there are obvious exceptions there's no need for you to list them. Threads has extreme normies, bluesky has the nerds, and twitter seems to have just the right mixture of both.
one of my biggest subjective takeaways from spending hours scrolling around the map is that my impression that the userbase was dominated by software types was ~mostly wrong! feels like less than half, and the rest is huge swaths of normie, artist, furry, and media people
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#40Bluesky and atproto seem to be built to be hackable.
Someone in the community recently built a searchable directory of Bluesky "Starter Packs" (which are a way for a user to publish a set of interesting people & feeds to follow, primarily to help newcomers bootstrap their experience):
https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all
Dan Abramov posted about it earlier today, saying he liked it and:
"the fact that it can be done in the ecosystem is awesome. let the ecosystem cook" [1]
And maybe more poignantly:
"seeing random projects pop up in the atproto ecosystem reminds me just how much public web common were stifled by social companies closing down their APIs. an entire landscape of tools given up on and abandoned" [2]