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Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

168 points IAmGraydon | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 01:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

Hey fellow HN enthusiasts!

I'm looking to expand my Bluesky feed with accounts that share interesting, tech-related content, similar to what we discuss here on HN.

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yewey ◴[20 Nov 24 01:47 UTC] No.42190077[source]▶
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?

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1. rsynnott ◴[20 Nov 24 10:28 UTC] No.42192532[source]▶
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