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Bluesky in numbers
Oct 24, 2026

Bluesky in numbers, Oct 24, 2026

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In short: on Oct 24, 2026, Bluesky saw 18,233 new accounts, 2,479,513 posts and 15,506,731 likes. 1,102,317 different accounts were active and 456,526 of them posted; 91 other Atmosphere apps were in use, and 284 new accounts chose an independent host.

In numbers

New accounts
18,233
 
Posts
2,479,513
45.5% replies
Likes
15,506,731
6.3 per post
Active accounts
1,102,317
456,526 posted
Did you know?
Eurosky, the European host for Bluesky accounts, welcomed +836 accounts in a week and now hosts 37,955. An account there works in Bluesky like any other.
Replies
45.5%
of the posts
With images
16.6%
of the posts
With video
2.2%
of the posts
Alt text
26.8%
of the images described
Reposts
2,562,574
 
Follows
1,357,160
201,046 blocks

1,910 accounts were deleted and 1,525 deactivated.

What is popular on Bluesky right now?

The trending topics, live, with their posts and replies: no account needed.

See what is trending

What people talked about

47 topics trended on Bluesky that day. By category:

politics 53%entertainment 17%science tech 17%culture 9%other 2%business 2%
1
Trump says Ukraine Starlink restored
politics 243,682 posts
2
Push to vote early in US election
politics 44,340 posts
3
Alberta separation referendum results
politics 27,517 posts
4
Spooky month stream schedules
entertainment 20,661 posts
5
El-Sayed's viral town hall response
politics 9,767 posts
6
Data center community impacts
science tech 9,622 posts
7
EA shuts down BioWare
entertainment 9,493 posts
8
Letter-themed bird photo prompt
culture 8,873 posts

See what is trending right now, and read the posts without an account, on the bskycheck home page.

Beyond Bluesky's servers: Eurosky, W, Blacksky…

A Bluesky account can live on another host and keep everything working (what is a PDS?). On Oct 24, 2026, 18,237 new accounts joined on Bluesky's own servers and 284 on independent hosts, plus 20 with their own domain as handle:

Eurosky
66
Bridgy Fed (from Mastodon)
48
DE
Delve
42
W
40
MY
myatproto.social
28
RA
Radial
18
Surf
15
OS
oso.social
12

The biggest independent hosts, by accounts (and their growth in a week):

Bridgy Fed
94,714 +300
W
49,374 +1,085
Blacksky
41,891 +237
Eurosky
37,955 +836
Tangled
11,518 +111
Spark
8,486 +57

Beyond Bluesky: the Atmosphere apps

Your Bluesky account also works in other apps of the Atmosphere. That day 91 other apps wrote to the network. The most active ones people use, by records written:

DE
Delve
16,344
RO
Rocksky (music)
13,940
AF
ai.afrilingua
5,634
CU
Currents
5,001
TE
teal.fm (music)
3,369
TR
tech.transparencia
2,436
ST
Streamplace (live video)
1,564
KN
dev.knotless
1,424

Languages

Share of the posts by language, that day:

EN
English
56.7%
JA
Japanese
11.8%
DE
German
3.6%
PT
Portuguese
3.3%
ES
Spanish
3.3%
FR
French
2.4%
KO
Korean
1.2%
NL
Dutch
1.1%

How many accounts are really active?

From bskycheck's weekly random sample of 19,931 accounts across the whole network (20,371,302 accounts listed):

10.7%active in the last 30 days
active in the last 30 days 11%quiet for 1 to 3 months 4%inactive for 90 days or more 85%

57.6% of the accounts have never posted, and the median account is 594 days old.

New on bskycheck

What changed on bskycheck that day:

See the posts any Bluesky account liked
The bskycheck likes tool can now show the posts any Bluesky account recently liked (up to 100), without logging in: likes on Bluesky are public records. Accounts that hide from logged-out visitors are respected.
Try it →
Read what is popular on Bluesky without an account
The bskycheck home page now shows Bluesky's trending topics. Click one to read its posts and the top replies, with new posts appearing every minute, no account or login needed.
Try it →

Questions

Where do these numbers come from?

bskycheck reads the public AT Protocol data stream all day (every post, like and follow, not a sample), records Bluesky's trending topics every 10 minutes, and samples random accounts across the network every week. Nothing private is used and no account is needed.

More guides

The Atmosphere and the AT ProtocolBluesky is one app among many: what the AT Protocol is, and the apps and hosts that share it. Spotting botsThe signs of a bot account, the harmless kinds, and how to mute, block or report the rest. All guidesEvery bskycheck guide to using Bluesky. Bluesky statisticsUsers, sign-ups and daily activity, updated every day.

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