it must feel good af to minimize free energy if you are

it's in the API called like "indexed_at"

both

me finding myspace tom

even had to go to an old version of Gephi to get this image preview plugin working >_>

graph is based on follows

yeah I forgot about their tweets too. good correction!

cool. this embedding based or graph-layout based?

opened up the graph file and you're there. the layout isn't the same as the original, but if you look hard enough you're in the original somewhere!

every node in that CD txt file should be on the viz. I crawled on 4/30.

putting things into perspective with The Blue Marble & The Blue Sky

tools for thought

here u go bud

If you're the kind of person who wants to dig deep into tiny niches on Bluesky here you go github.com/deklanw/basic_bluesky_an...

Browse or ctrl+f in this file and you'll find something interesting

OK, I'm tired. Done for now. Might post more tomorrow. Code is here. Please forgive the messiness https://github.com/deklanw/basic_bluesky_analysis

Niche of Ethereum

Top accounts:
@ligi.de @lightclient.eth.limo @franzi.bsky.social @q9f.cc @0xstark.bsky.social

ANOTHER niche of TFT-ish people

Top accounts:
@danhunt.bsky.social @schlaf.bsky.social @cortexfutura.com @mamanlunettes.bsky.social @lyle.bsky.social

Example niche you should check out:

Photographers

Top accounts: @brynnalise.bsky.social @abrahanny.bsky.social @bryanminear.com @jacksimpson.com @monaris.bsky.social @pli.bsky.social

Example niche you should check out:

Sveltey Frontend influencers

Top accounts: @threepointone.bsky.social @rich-harris.dev @jaredpalmer.com @swyx.io @thatjdanisso.cool @wattenberger.com

Check out that last account in particular if you enjoy data viz. She's spectacular

how's this

Example niche you should check out:

Meditators, Buddhists, consciousness, psychedelics

Top accounts: @leona.bsky.social @metaphorician.com @meansinfinity.bsky.social @tramazonlily.bsky.social @neats.bsky.social @vincehorn.space

A sibling tiny niche of TFT stuff

(Only 8 accounts so I'll just tag all..) @maggieappleton.com @robhaisfield.com @andymatuschak.org @schlage.town @nesslabs.com @travisnorthcutt.com @dharam.bsky.social @olena.bsky.social

Example niche: Future of coding / humane computing

Top accounts:
@geoffreylitt.com @gordon.bsky.social @thesephist.com

That pretty much does it for the highest level of community structure. To me this high-level view of the network gets boring fast. But, you *can* make finer distinctions! They're just harder to visually untangle in a viz of the full network. I'm going to post now about some niches

Politics, mainstream

Top 10 accounts: @aoc.bsky.social @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @junlper.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social @xychelsea.tv @jbouie.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @jordanuhl.com @mattbinder.bsky.social

Tech, software development

Top 10 accounts: @scott.hanselman.com @lookitup.baby @kelseyhightower.com @angiejones.tech @pariss.blacktechpipeline.com @sarahedo.bsky.social @ashleywillis.bsky.social @aliafonzy.bsky.social @ericajoy.astrel.la @mekka.mekka-tech.com

Digital Art

Top 10 accounts: @tjo.bsky.social @faithlove.art @funghibull.bsky.social @vinnie.bsky.social @medved.bsky.social @betty.bsky.social @kdean.bsky.social @patrickamadon.bsky.social @pho.bsky.social @bryanbrinkman.bsky.social

OG Bluesky (team, early invites) + decentralization?:

Top 10 accounts: @jay.bsky.team @why.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @rose.bsky.team @dholms.xyz @emily.bsky.team @bsky.app @divy.zone @bnewbold.bsky.team @zoink.bsky.social

deepfates ur killing me with that long ass handle