Presenting an exploration of Bluesky's network. Going to go over the community structure, evolution of the network, top accounts, etc.
First, here is the high-level community structure with some labels. Hi res w/ zoom here: https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/884cb1c001cd48e79aca92232bd24a04
03.05.2023 01:01 β π 588 π 231 π¬ 74 π 285
*banging a large gong* let the first discourse commence
27.04.2023 17:13 β π 228 π 39 π¬ 22 π 10
We had a super weird sky in Reno the other day. I think it was due to a high thin layer of clouds, so the sky was white, and then dark clouds on a white background. The photo only partly captures it:
25.04.2023 23:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Type of guy who starts playing final boss music when at the end of a long drive
(I am the guy)
14.04.2023 06:13 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Mustβ¦ resistβ¦ urgeβ¦ to armorβ¦ the tailβ¦
13.04.2023 06:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I literally just followed whichever tpot names I recognized, even if I donβt follow them on Twitter π
13.04.2023 04:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Never go full Descartes
13.04.2023 01:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
For some reason I now think the single most important thing Bluesky needs to work on is muting threads π€
11.04.2023 23:25 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I deeply regret posting on the number thread π
11.04.2023 23:24 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
I really shouldnβt have done that :(
11.04.2023 05:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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11.04.2023 04:56 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Itβs quite underrated. I got my first exposure to coding that way too
Also I graduated HS early and worked construction for a year before college, VERY underrated for future white collar workers to be able to look at a new physical object that exists because of you
11.04.2023 01:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oddly I met a lot of my formative teenage friends in the StarCraft modding community
11.04.2023 00:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
True, match made in Heaven
10.04.2023 23:38 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Crazy to think tpot was in the first ~10k users of the platform
10.04.2023 23:34 β π 42 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0
Okay but seriously the vast majority of poasting is meta-level stuff about Bluesky, we need to populate it with actual object-level content to be a real platform
10.04.2023 23:30 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 6 π 0
Alright Iβm out of stuff to do on Bluesky, going back to Twitter now ππ»
10.04.2023 23:23 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It was *really* great for a while, honestly. Scale hurt, it turned into a live podcasting service (whichβ¦ isnβt exactly a bad idea either, but it didnβt feel like the spirit of the thing)
10.04.2023 06:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Haha your kid seems awesome!
10.04.2023 06:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
*blaring bagpipes*
10.04.2023 02:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs weirdly concentrated *just* in our specific social circle
10.04.2023 02:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It algorithmically chooses to include new people but the posts are still chronological
10.04.2023 02:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Omg thank you I just started looking because of this post
10.04.2023 02:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
But honestly I donβt see what Iβd do differently on Bluesky, which might kill it in the long run :-/
10.04.2023 02:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Facebook for me is very clearly βthis is a personal site for personal friends, and I know with decently high probability theyβll see and appreciate itβ
Twitter I do have that existential question sometimes, but mostly I use it to gather info, and then post informative mega threads sometimesβ¦
10.04.2023 02:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This feels a little like Clubhouse before Eternal September, except itβs all tpot instead of VC Twitter
10.04.2023 02:13 β π 35 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
Wait so is the only feed a purely chronological one?
Am I the only person who appreciates algorithmic feeds?
10.04.2023 02:12 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0
You just dated yourself π
10.04.2023 02:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yeah Iβve decided to just follow almost anyone I recognize from tpot and see where it goes
10.04.2023 02:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Did literally all of tpot make the migration? Itβs just like Twitter in hereβ¦
09.04.2023 23:52 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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