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blog! βExploring BlueSky's Domain Handlesβ
Hot new social networking site BlueSky has an interesting approach to usernames. Rather than just being @example you can verify your domain name and be @example.com! Isn't that exciting? Some people are @whatever.tld and others are @cool.subdomain.funny.lol.fwd.boring.tld I wanted to know what the distribution is of these domain names.
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/exploring-blueskys-domain-handles/
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@Edent My math intuition is that this is suspiciously 'smooth' for chunky data based on human choices. Meaning that it would probably beautifully snap to an exponential decay curve.
I might be undervaluing the large size of the dataset though, making humans look like a natural phenomenon?
Lovely graph, even the palette choice is pleasing!
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@Lexeto thanks! All the data are on my GitHub, so feel free to explore it.
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@Edent I suspect the predominance of .gy is the fediverse bridge accounts!
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@clare_hooley yup!
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@Edent From what I can tell, you could also enumerate all domain handles via the https://plc.directory/export API. This would give the complete data set rather than just the accounts that were posting when you were collecting data.
I'm not sure how different the results would be though.,
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@jamesh Interesting. Is there documentation for that?
I was mostly interesting in active users because it paints a more realistic view of what's going on - IMO.
