Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

This collection of starter packs might be useful:

https://github.com/stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-pack...

I see a lot of people on Mastodon posting jokes about Twitter users moving to another centralised and venture capital-backed platform, like that "this time it will be different for sure!". I haven't read up on it myself so don't know what to think. Can someone burst my bubble on this?

Edit: saw a lot of valid responses, thanks! My question is answered and I might sign up on bsky as well if I get bored on Mastodon or want to connect with someone there :)

I've just started using my account, but follow me:

https://bsky.app/profile/adamgordonbell.bsky.social

I have a podcast about software development, corecursive.com, and I also share other interesting things I'm up to.

I post regularly about tech things: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net, if you have a cool domain attached to your account, I'll follow back!

New versions of the same old social media will never fix the problems of social media.

Starter Packs are definitely the way to go. Search by your interests here: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all?ref=Referred+...

I've only been using it a few weeks, but will be mainly posting about startup strategy for bootstrappers: https://bsky.app/profile/psturrock.bsky.social

I am posting about the history of astronomy: https://bsky.app/profile/antognini.bsky.social

Mike Masnick https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social

I'm relatively new on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net

I've been posting Postgres stuff for some reason

The Postgres starter pack is worth following too: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:pqezpw5jkucrahb5pdelw5...

https://bsky.app/profile/skillissues.bsky.social

Definitely can recommend pragmatic engineer blog profile

https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

You may find there stories about software engineering, tech companies, tech jobs market and more.

Gergely just recently joined Bluesky, so at least for me it's minus one reason to open Twitter.

I write about web development topics concerning Python, Django, and Javascript: https://bsky.app/profile/joshkaramuth.com

Btw, I've never been a social media person and was wondering how you guys get followers on such platforms. Care to share tips?

https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/

Follow me if you want to explore knowledge management, journaling and note-taking: https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.bsky.social

I'm going to work on starter kits for those topics, to help people find makers, creators, abd like-minded people

I post about Flutter & Dart. https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.bsky.social

(I previously founded/led flutter.dev. If you’re using Flutter or Dart, I’d like to make sure you have a great experience, reach out!)

I'm Jean Lucas - https://bsky.app/profile/jeanlucas.bsky.social

80% of my posts are about tech both in Portuguese and English, I also repost a lot of tech takes.

I try to give some Brazilian perspective on tech, if possible.

I post about AI and its applications to fashion, with occasional digressions into weaving, NYC, and dogs. https://bsky.app/profile/jeffksmith.bsky.social

Hiding reposts has been the killer feature of Bluesky. Main reason I spend more time there now.

tech art, synthesizer builds, history https://bsky.app/profile/lucidbeaming.com

I post about local-first, future of computing, protocols, education, and, recently, AI engineering.

Once they add gifs, I’ll post more “build out loud” threads.

https://bsky.app/profile/jessmart.in

I am writing and sharing only about Ruby and Ruby on Rails at https://bsky.app/profile/lucianghinda.com in case there are topics that might interest you

Haven't posted much (yet) to BSky but write about tech, insurance, climate, and products I like to use:

https://bsky.app/profile/groovedrm.bsky.social

I haven't posted yet, but here is my handle: https://bsky.app/profile/huevosabio.bsky.social

I usually post on the other site about politics, AI, games.

I'm so glad to see an influx of tech and security related accounts on bsky.

When I was last using bsky a lot under a different account, it was a much smaller site and a lot of the major posters seemed to mostly just be involved with interpersonal drama.

https://bsky.app/profile/pthangeda.bsky.social

Hey everyone! I mostly post about robotics and automation, and occasionally transit and trains.

If you want to follow: https://bsky.app/profile/kiruio.bsky.social

I will post about:

- SwiftUI

- App Store Apps

- Indie Hacking / Solo Dev / Bootstrapping

- Elixir once in a while

- and unavoidably JavaScript :)

I posted some from woodworking. I plan to share computer stuff.

https://bsky.app/profile/reacharavindh.bsky.social

I'll be posting about science, genetics, and how privacy is important.

https://bsky.app/profile/witold.bsky.social

Hey all! I write about decentralized wireless networks (specifically Helium)

https://bsky.app/profile/rawrmaan.com

Hey! I am @avi.im

I mostly post stuff about databases, distributed systems and my frustrations with Rust

https://bsky.app/profile/avi.im

I've been maintaining a starter pack for Postgres people - https://go.bsky.app/Acp7hmk

My account - https://bsky.app/profile/vs4vijay.bsky.social

I post about ML/DL and SWE at https://bsky.app/profile/snats.xyz

I’m over at https://bsky.app/profile/rcarmo.bsky.social

A few tech/ML related that I've found to follow,

Jeremy Howard @jph.bsky.social

Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

antirez @antirez.bsky.social

Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at

Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org

Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net

Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca

Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social

François Chollet @fchollet.bsky.social

My account is https://bsky.app/profile/asindu.xyz

I was there when it was like 500 people. Took a break and came back. Mostly post about product and game development.

Sho.bsky.social

Any good ones for keeping up to date on the cutting edge of AI coding tools?

Does Bluesky also have the bot problem? Cant stand X for this reason.

Hmmm. It might be fun to create a HN leaders starter pack.

arcalinea

oh . perfect.

hey technical bluesky. i have a challenge for you.

tail the firehose on bluesky and calculate how many posts per second there are.

its 90-130 today. my observation is that its trending downward by 15-30 posts a second per day despite the upward alleged user growth.

and is that number going up or DOWN despite allegedly being 20x bigger than ever and a million new accounts a day?

#!/bin/bash

./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl wss://jetstream.atproto.tools/subscribe\?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post |pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null

so what are these millions of new accounts if they dont post anything?