Pookleblinky: Fun fact: the median bluesky user has made 7 posts, and is followed by one person. The mean number of posts per user is 96. Only 323,532 out of 5,950,015 users have posted more than 10o times. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Fun fact: the median bluesky user has made 7 posts, and is followed by one person. The mean number of posts per user is 96. Only 323,532 out of 5,950,015 users have posted more than 10o times. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social) bsky.jazco.dev

Zipf's law hits *hard* The top 10 most prolific posters, post literally more than the bottom 90% of all users combined. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_...

Zipf's law - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

In word frequency you see zipf's law as: the most common word in a pool is used twice as much as the next most, etc.

Only 1% of users have made more than 1,000 posts. Less than 0.5% of users have more than 1,000 followers. As in irl friend groups, these outliers are massively overrepresented.

Fun fact: your friends are very likely *much* more popular than you are www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

Math Explains Why Your Friends Are More Popular Than Youwww.scientificamerican.com The inspection paradox makes sense of social networks, long train wait times and why the call center is always busy

Basically, you are inevitably going to see the top few most online, prolific posters. They post *vastly* more than everyone else, they have *vastly* more followers than everyone else. Statistically everyone else is noise.

If you only paid attention to these freakishly popular and prolific outliers, you could easily miss everything else. Only 5% of users have made more than 292 posts or have more than 95 followers.

Noise here!

Some laws are inescapable. When doing social media analysis and modeling in the olden days of 2007ish, we used to call it “the rule of participation inequality” or “the 90, 9, and 1 law” 🙂

I'm shocked to learn that I'm in the top 1% of bluesky users by followers. I thought I was a small account.

Makes ME feel a lot better about my 150-ish followers 😂

first time ive been in the 1%. I feel less evil than I expected

Almost on the top 1% of posters and I've not been here that long - got in just before the doors opened for everyone. Then again I was probably in the same rough area when Twitter was fun.

oh my god i am literally the top 1%

katie elitistpussy

well tbf i'm also literally the top #1 so i don't know why this surprised me

And what do they say about the 1%?

Every active Bsky user is Spiders Georg.

now I feel even worse about myself

Never stop posting, folks

Needs-to-go-outside Georg, who lives in cave & posts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

i do go outside very regularly actually but thank you for your concern mr hoer

At your service. Those 10k posts are *good*.

o7

I can see the outdoors from here JUST FINE. (Oh no, something is making a repetitive high pitched sound. Is it going to kill me? Better go deeper into the cave.)

Leave @juicysteak117.gay alone.

Hey everybody! I’m slightly above average!!!

All the best people just happily chatting away the rest of the world throws itself onto a cactus, repeatedly

Cool. That means the odds of me becoming King of Bluesky are pretty good. My first order of business will be to rename it "Flutter" and call posts "Flaps." "Have you seen the latest Flap on Flutter?"

It sounds like the median user you are referring to isn’t an active user. Wouldn’t it make more sense to run all of these stats off of ppl actively using the platform vs those that have signed up and abandoned it, which is common across social media?

My guess is that a lot of the trends you are referring to still hold, but not nearly at the same order of magnitude.

Damn, I thought the number of mean skeets would be lower. Everyone on here seems super nice. :)

@juicysteak117.gay is doing her best to skew these results

i am literally posters george

Fueled by eating spiders

Doing my part! Up to 232 posts.

So we counting the indo account sellers? Cause honestly regardless of statistics, i'm pretty fond of what we have here.

Ya know, it actually doesn’t feel good to be 99th percentile when all I ever do is whine about the weather and how desperate my life is.

Like, I don’t necessarily regret whining about those things because they really are things and they suck and I wish they were better—but does anyone actually *like* that on their feed?

I would never go back to 'X' 🤢, but there seems to be something missing here, and I don't know what it is. I'm rarely drawn to this app, and I really want to be!

Perhaps we're suffering PTSD from the muskrat take over.

This stuff is hilarious to me because I basically never post but somehow also post more than most people?

Apparently I am in the 5%, and I am literally nobody. Which indicates to me that all you have to do to be 'heard' is to post the occasional cat pic.

Same! Recently broke 1K posts, and over 100 followers (even if the last several are either post-only, or are likely DM spammers.

Going to add "verified statistical noise" to my profile and wear it proudly.

Is part of this because many have set up just in case accounts then gone back to Twitter, only dropping in occasionally?

Most who I brought over haven't returned. They didn't like the gatekeeping here

I think many weren’t willing to make something here, they’re accustomed to the big sites setting an agenda for them.

It was hard when the "elders" were actively looking for anybody who didn't bow to them or their expectations of how this place should look TO them.

I ignored that crew.

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