Weekly PDS users chart, unstacked edition: @transrights.northsky.social is growing, crossed 1k active users and catching up to @wsocial.eu; @eurosky.social approaching 9k active users
Sep 21, 2026 at 3:18 PM
PDSwatch (@pdswatch.popbob.wtf)
Tracking the @atproto.com PDS network. PDSes operated by Bluesky Social are not included in the charts. Data sourced from https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping Maintained by @hexmani.ac
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
📝 #WSocial state of the network 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions. #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers (information about Bluesky PDSs is readily available). On day 18 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 7935 accounts: - 90,5% have never* published a single post - 82,2% have 0 followers - 78% follow 0 accounts (may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process) LMK if you find this useful
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 📝 #WSocial state of the network - Friday July 10th 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers. On day 23 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 11291 accounts: - 469 new users since yesterday - 899 users have published one or more posts - 72 new users posting since yesterday - 92% have never* published a single post *may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process
W Social: Hello World!
It appears the w-social client has gone closed source. Any comment on this @janlindblad.bsky.social ? The article linked therein also poses another important question: Are all the components in W Social’s ATproto stack self-hosted in Europe? So, not just the PDS, but also the relay, AppView and moderation.
bskycheck.com (@bskycheck.com)
Tracking how Bluesky is growing Daily stats on new users & blue checks + occasional data deep dives. 🌐 Website: www.bskycheck.com 🛠 Built by: @saw6mayo.eurosky.social ☕ Support us: https://ko-fi.com/bskycheck ⚠️ 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘬𝘺 ⚠️
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…
Advancing the AT Protocol in Partnership with Eurosky | Igalia
www.igalia.comNew chart on my stats page! 📊 The set of PDSes is manually selected to show those which are open and have enough users to show up at all, I will be updating it over time. I don't have historical post data to count per PDS further than a few weeks back. blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_pds_chart
Top accounts that have moved to (or signed up on) @wsocial.eu PDS:
On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_origin_chart
Back at #AtmosphereConf @transrights.northsky.social demoed a very raw alpha of our private data solution Stratos. I'm happy to say that we are ready for a public Alpha! To level the playing field, it supports space *and* non-space PDS users so you can talk privately together clubhouse.atverkackt.de
W Social has crossed 1k weekly active users in my stats, and getting close to ½ of what Blacksky has… 🫣 blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_pds_chart
#WSocial state of the network - September 15, 2026 There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active the network is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. This is the beauty of #OpenData 💫 sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, atproto.at #WSocialPics #WSocialFacts
Around 0.5% of weekly active users are on independent PDSes right now, 1.5% if you count @ap.brid.gy - honestly more than I expected 🙂 (blue.mackuba.eu/stats/)
ben
What proportion of total users is that?
