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An exploration into creating a visualization of 13 million BlueSky users, leveraging force-directed graph layout techniques and UMAP for dimensionality reduction. The process involved aggregating follow and unfollow events using WebSocket on BlueSky's relay service, followed by parallelized computation on a home server to handle the vast data. The project culminated in an interactive map to explore the network and highlighted the importance of interactivity for meaningful large-scale visualizations.

Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users

This platform will eat itself. Already can’t keep up with the censorship requests. Equivalent to going a social event with everyone’s mouth taped up.

This is amazing! Watching BlueSky grow and evolve will be a glimpse into what the early 2010s was like for you oldies. 😉

Crazy article, thank you for this