yewey

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?

they are pumping the numbers. you can clock how many posts per second are happening in real time world wide on the firehose with the following (need "pv" command and websocat command):

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

I can prove the posts are DECLINING EVERY DAY, and now so can you.

this number never clocked over 160 posts per second.

its trending DOWN to 88-100 posts per second rather than going up, despite adding "20 million people" and "a million a day."

its not growing. its dying. pfraze and jay gruber are lying. as someone who was already there in the first place, and just got smacked down a month ago over rubbish , with ycombinator comments in my history to prove it , i can tell you that all the artists and things that made bluesky bluesky - including me - are gone smothered suffocated silenced and banned and now all you see are piping hot US political takes all day. im not even in the united states which is why i am livid about the new arrivals and the agenda.

so you have millions of "new accounts" that arent posting anything.

are these just bots to "like" jojo and the krassensteins TDS posting?

there are threads on places i shant mention, describing how new users are scrutinized to see if theyre anywhere politically to the right of Mao and hatebombing / harassing/moderating/banning them immediately. how is this even possible with a million new accounts a day?

and will a bunch of hostile feminists be able to place derogatory "labels" on my self hosted account or put me on nasty and rudely named lists branding me a right winger or a transmysoginist or whatever like they currently do on bluesky?