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Bluesky this week
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026

Bluesky this week, Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026

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In short: from Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, Bluesky saw 141,490 new accounts, 24,103,353 posts and 156,414,244 likes. 2,790,956 different accounts were active and 1,315,382 of them posted; 144 other Atmosphere apps were in use, and 2,400 new accounts chose an independent host.

The week in numbers

New accounts
141,490
 
Posts
24,103,353
44.2% replies
Likes
156,414,244
6.5 per post
Active accounts
2,790,956
1,315,382 posted
Did you know?
Besides Bluesky, 144 other apps of the Atmosphere wrote to the network this week, all usable with the same account.
Posts per day
3.4M
Mon
3.5M
Tue
3.5M
Wed
3.5M
Thu
3.5M
Fri
3.4M
Sat
3.3M
Sun
Likes per day
23.5M
Mon
22.1M
Tue
21.5M
Wed
22.6M
Thu
22.3M
Fri
21.8M
Sat
22.7M
Sun
Replies
44.2%
of the posts
With images
15.7%
of the posts
With video
2.1%
of the posts
Alt text
26.4%
of the images described
Reposts
25,305,284
 
Follows
11,183,928
2,405,152 blocks

17,606 accounts were deleted and 14,885 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

524 topics trended on Bluesky this week. By category:

politics 51%entertainment 17%sports 14%science tech 6%culture 6%business 3%other 2%
1
Musk admits restricting Ukraine's Starlink
science tech 265,779 posts
2
Patrick Stewart dies
entertainment 202,235 posts
3
Patrick Stewart dies
entertainment 101,416 posts
4
Spooky month stream schedules
entertainment 65,566 posts
5
Push to vote early in US election
politics 65,495 posts
6
Patrick Stewart dies
entertainment 51,317 posts
7
British Columbia provincial election
politics 35,817 posts
8
Brewers vs. Rays World Series
sports 32,436 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?). From Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, 141,508 new accounts joined on Bluesky's own servers and 2,400 on independent hosts, plus 306 with their own domain as handle:

W
745
Eurosky
476
Bridgy Fed (from Mastodon)
353
OS
oso.social
318
Blacksky
129
MY
myatproto.social
112
Tangled
89
RA
Radial
64

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

Bridgy Fed
95,131 +717
W
50,249 +1,960
Blacksky
42,178 +524
Eurosky
38,968 +1,849
Tangled
11,943 +536
Spark
8,610 +181

Beyond Bluesky: the Atmosphere apps

Your Bluesky account also works in other apps of the Atmosphere. This week 144 other apps wrote to the network. The most active ones people use, by records written:

DE
Delve
70,589
RO
Rocksky (music)
65,219
CU
Currents
62,925
GA
app.gainforest
55,371
TE
teal.fm (music)
38,023
AF
ai.afrilingua
35,619
TR
tech.transparencia
29,012
5L
jp.5leaf
27,948

Languages

Share of the posts by language, this week:

EN
English
58%
JA
Japanese
11.3%
PT
Portuguese
3.4%
DE
German
3%
ES
Spanish
3%
FR
French
1.9%
KO
Korean
1.3%
NE
ne
1.2%

How many accounts are really active?

From bskycheck's weekly random sample of 39,828 accounts across the whole network (20,497,207 accounts listed):

11%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 597 days old.

New on bskycheck

What changed on bskycheck this week:

New guide: Bluesky moderation lists
A step-by-step guide to Bluesky moderation lists: how to block or mute a whole list of accounts at once, how to find good lists and how to make your own.
Try it →
A new home page
The bskycheck home page has a new look: live Bluesky numbers on one side, trending topics and any account's posts on the other, and every tool one click away.
Try it →
Likes tool: a full report
The bskycheck likes tool now gives a full report of an account's likes, and can list the posts it liked recently.
Try it →
Is Bluesky down? Live answer
A new page checks Bluesky every minute from two places and says right away whether Bluesky is down, slow or working normally.
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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