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Bluesky this week
Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026

Bluesky this week, Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026

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In short: from Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026, Bluesky saw 138,193 new accounts, 26,588,632 posts and 190,153,051 likes. 2,849,145 different accounts were active and 1,327,809 of them posted; 149 other Atmosphere apps were in use, and 2,700 new accounts chose an independent host.

The week in numbers

New accounts
138,193
 
Posts
26,588,632
+10.3% vs the week before
Likes
190,153,051
+21.6% vs the week before
Active accounts
2,849,145
1,327,809 posted
Did you know?
Eurosky, the European host for Bluesky accounts, welcomed +2,505 accounts in a week and now hosts 39,624. An account there works in Bluesky like any other.
Posts per day
3.4M
Mon
3.6M
Tue
4.8M
Wed
3.9M
Thu
3.9M
Fri
3.5M
Sat
3.4M
Sun
Likes per day
22.6M
Mon
24.4M
Tue
44.1M
Wed
28.0M
Thu
26.0M
Fri
22.8M
Sat
22.4M
Sun
Replies
46.1%
of the posts
With images
14.4%
of the posts
With video
2%
of the posts
Alt text
26.7%
of the images described
Reposts
28,805,554
 
Follows
12,973,686
2,454,861 blocks

17,064 accounts were deleted and 14,702 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

453 topics trended on Bluesky this week. By category:

politics 66%entertainment 11%culture 8%sports 6%science tech 5%business 2%other 2%
1
Midterm elections days away
politics 93,389 posts
2
Happy Halloween wishes
culture 65,943 posts
3
Haley Stevens' staff resigns
politics 20,539 posts
4
Alaska ballot lawsuit
politics 19,615 posts
5
Playing Deadlock
entertainment 12,520 posts
6
Speculation Trump allies will flee
politics 10,654 posts
7
Haley Stevens compared to Fetterman
politics 9,379 posts
8
Ocarina of Time remake reviews
entertainment 9,237 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 Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026, 2,700 new accounts joined on independent hosts instead of Bluesky's own servers, plus 1,168 with their own domain as handle:

W
1,198
Eurosky
484
Bridgy Fed (from Mastodon)
393
OS
oso.social
243
Blacksky
116
MY
myatproto.social
81
Tangled
68
Surf
45

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

Bridgy Fed
95,533 +1,119
W
51,426 +3,137
Blacksky
42,386 +732
Eurosky
39,624 +2,505
Tangled
12,170 +763
Spark
8,684 +255

Beyond Bluesky: the Atmosphere apps

Your Bluesky account also works in other apps of the Atmosphere. This week 149 other apps wrote to the network. The most active ones people use, by records written:

TE
teal.fm (music)
359,525
TI
org.titlegraph
128,825
SE
dev.sensorthings
69,263
DE
Delve
64,519
ST
Standard.site publications (Leaflet, pckt…)
53,956
CU
Currents
52,233
VM
cx.vmx
51,623
RO
Rocksky (music)
48,635

Languages

Share of the posts by language, this week:

EN
English
62%
JA
Japanese
10.1%
ES
Spanish
2.8%
DE
German
2.7%
PT
Portuguese
2.7%
FR
French
1.8%
NE
Nepali
1.3%
KO
Korean
1.2%

How many accounts are really active?

From bskycheck's weekly random sample of 39,829 accounts across the whole network (20,627,521 accounts listed):

11.4%active in the last 30 days
active in the last 30 days 11%quiet for 1 to 3 months 3%inactive for 90 days or more 85%

57.8% of the accounts have never posted, and the median account is 605 days old.

New on bskycheck

What changed on bskycheck this week:

Bluesky Block Checker
A new page shows how many accounts block any Bluesky profile and every moderation list it is on, with a guide on how to tell if someone blocked you. No names, no login.
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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