item (@item@libera.site)
#Bluesky #Statistics 2025-09-05
Number of federated users: 61 632
Number of webmentions: 18 076
Number of new federated users last day: 30
Number of new webmentions last day: 12
#Fediverse
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notes (@notes@sakurajima.social)
#Bluesky now has post notifications, beautiful.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
@growfediverse I'm not too concerned with #Mastodon, but culturally, #Bluesky has way way way more influence. Especially, politically. And, you can't escape those consequences.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
There’s a clear link between #socialmedia content, the manufactured health crisis, and RFK Jr.'s nomination. It’s not ideas that spread—humans mimic behavior.
Handwashing and masking reduce spread of viruses; skipping them increases it.
You can’t escape #Bluesky’s consequences by curating your feed. Tech & memetics are deeply intertwined. Tech is culturally learned.
It's like trying to find a spot of good air in a city. We're all breathing the toxic air of the noosphere.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
You kinda can’t avoid it. I’m sorry to tell you, but societies have something called a memeplex, similar to a microbiome. Ideas spread like viruses, analogous to our microbiome.
You can think of #antivax cultural ideas as a social dimension to measles since people’s behavior in accordance with those ideas helps it spread.
#Bluesky is basically a super-spreader of bad ideas, but once they’re out, they’re out.
#Mastodon isn’t a viral platform, but it’s out there in society.
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Carsten_O (@Carsten_O@neander.social)
Eben auf #Bluesky gefunden.
Leider habe ich keinen Urheber.
Schön ist es trotzdem.
UND ES GILT VERDAMMTE HACKE AUCH FÜR DIE F***INK AFD!!!11!elf!!
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
By the way, what I just said is not an opinion. The way people are rationalizing their antisocial behavior—yes, doing something you know is bad for society is clinically antisocial, or at the very least neurotic—is part of the reason the Internet is a hellscape.
#SocialMedia platforms like #Twitter and #Bluesky are set up to spread ideas that are harmful to society. Mastodon doesn’t use the same algorithms. So, by being over there and not over here, you're hurting society.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
They made it easier to add people. There was an update two days ago. What I do is model social media data in epidemiological frameworks to study how misinformation contributes to illness.
#Bluesky is bad for people's health. The way people rationalize it—like you’re doing—is part of the problem.
By using #Bluesky, you're actively harming public health. I can say that objectively, as someone who has done work for the FDA. This obsession with followers will be the death of us.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
I'm not too concerned with "exposure" because #Mastodon isn't trying to make things viral. The shenanigans over there aren't culturally competitive here. And, there aren't enough vectors, and you can just cut off an entire instance.
Ironically, block lists on #Bluesky create another network of people all blocking the same person.
The blocked person is still there—you've just created a bifurcation in the system. Here, they're cut off. I'm not too concerned with Mastodon.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
@growfediverse They're taking this into consideration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closeness_centrality
It's kind of like having a few sick people randomly spread over an open space, rather than having them clustered together. Bad ideas spread like viruses. It's called memetics. #Mastodon is too open, and the people aren't clustered. Bluesky is making sure you're clustered together.
Memetic contagion alone isn't the issue. #Bluesky is creating a whole different kind of monster.
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
By the way, this account is bridged—ironically. I actually have a WordPress instance on the Fediverse and a PDS, and I am bridged. So, people on #Bluesky saw my initial post.
I'm currently writing a web app for the AT Protocol. The AT Protocol is to Bluesky what the ActivityPub protocol is to Mastodon. It's not the whole of the "ATmosphere."
I am criticizing Bluesky.app not the ATmosphere. But again, I'm not going to argue with a layperson about this.
There are your tools. Good luck!
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BlueCircuitDragon (@BlueCircuitDragon@mas.to)
Actually, I can. I’m a Computer Scientist specializing in Combinatorics and Graph Theory. I do epidemiological modeling using social media data. I'm using Gephi, the #Bluesky Importer, and a script I wrote to pull conversational loci. This is the plugin I’m using:
Bluesky Gephi
https://gephi.org/plugins/#/plugin/bluesky-gephi
You’re welcome to run your own analysis. I don’t argue online with laypeople. You can use Gephi to import the network of cliques.
As a peer reviewer, I don't argue online.
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