sweetbeex/bsky-photo-number-analyses

Statistical analysis of Bluesky posts, before app changed multi-photo presentation from grids to carousels. Looking specifically at image count vs post engagement on posts with images of people.

Bluesky feed engagement — image-count analysis

The left chart tiers authors by actual follower count (at analysis time). The right chart tiers authors by median likes per post — a proxy for effective reach. Interesting divergence: under the follower definition, medium-size accounts show no 4-img penalty; under median-engagement, the pattern is different.

Facebook and Twitter shutter pro-Trump network reaching 55 million accounts

They used AI-generated faces as profile photos

The 'Gram by @why.bsky.team

All the pictures posted by people you follow

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

Trending Photography by @sweetbee.vip

All inclusive photography feed. This is not your standard photography feed, I’m actively adding every related hashtag on Bluesky. Anyone can easily add a post by using #photography All post labels and languages allowed.

we can just do things - underreacted

7 days later and we have some results from the experiment. When we demote popular posts we see: - 8.26% fewer "show less like this" (3340 -> 3064) - 0.24% more posts in For You were liked (242438 -> 243024) - 2.43% more feed loads (438867 -> 449537) Per user and per request metrics:

Ratioed — dame.is

I began this social art experiment in June 2025 and have “performed” it periodically since. My intent was to explore what it would look like to use a social media post as a medium for art (not for sharing art). Because I used Bluesky, the social data underlying this art projec…

siwek (@siwek@social.tooinconsistent.com)

@_elena@mastodon.social It seems they are calculating "engagement" which I'm assuming is likes + reposts + comments and then show it as number of comments.

Twitter Rival Bluesky Has a Nudes Problem

In its chaotic early days, the platform’s algorithm shared naked pictures in its What’s Hot feed.

Tyler Angert on Twitter / X

we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity.here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image… pic.twitter.com/fsCqIHv00j— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) March 24, 2026