Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

oh . perfect.

hey technical bluesky. i have a challenge for you.

tail the firehose on bluesky and calculate how many posts per second there are.

its 90-130 today. my observation is that its trending downward by 15-30 posts a second per day despite the upward alleged user growth.

and is that number going up or DOWN despite allegedly being 20x bigger than ever and a million new accounts a day?

#!/bin/bash

./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl wss://jetstream.atproto.tools/subscribe\?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post |pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null

so what are these millions of new accounts if they dont post anything?

I can’t answer or even evaluate your interpretation.

But let’s assume that the people are there and there’s a lot less posting and more reading.

Maybe that’s ok, or even better?

Not saying it is, but maybe?

Tantrums about X can only last so long.

On the upside we all got the opportunity to just block any accounts announcing their departure from X.

They're just dippin their toes in!

Might be a time-of-day thing? Activity generally looks fairly stable with a small down-trend, but nothing on the scale you're suggesting: https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/bluesky-week.html