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> The reason why Twitter, and Reddit in particular work so well is because of sub-communities that form organically. Which sub-communities are on Twitter right

> The reason why Twitter, and Reddit in particular work so well is because of sub-communities that form organically. Which sub-communities are on Twitter right now?

throwaway85825 7mo ago
It seems like most of Japan.
- verdverm 7mo ago
  Japanese is the second most used language on Bluesky https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_langs.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
  - esbranson 7mo ago
    Is the same algorithmic connectivity with Japanese happening on Bluesky as it is on Twitter, or are Bluesky's algorithms just as opaque as Twitter's?
    - verdverm 7mo ago
      I'm not sure myself, however in atproto you can fetch all the data and do analytics, love it or hate it.
  - Karrot_Kream 7mo ago
    Japanese Bluesky isn't even close to Twitter yet. No politicians, no actors and actresses, no seiyuu, no utaite, a few mangaka and light novel authors, nobody that talks about trains, though there is the Frieren official account. There's a few Japanese that are just trying to generally meet new people or some that use Blueksy as a 1 way venting valve. And as usual there are some political Japanese. In fact given how small Japanese Bluesky is the amount of politics is quite shocking given that Japanese tend not to be as vocal about politics on microblogging sites. (2ch on the other hand...)
    - ronsor 7mo ago
      Bluesky itself is just a politics magnet.
  - numpad0 7mo ago
    But the en:ja ratio is like 5:1. Real population ratio between us:jp is like 3:1, and on Twitter it's more like 1.5:1 by active user count. This means Bluesky is less popular in Japan than it is in English speaking regions.
    - verdverm 7mo ago
      yes, and... would be more appropriate than "but" Our points are not mutually exclusive. Thanks for adding more insight. Is your bsky ratio based on actual users or the data at the link? (which is posts by language) Are there similar content stats for the site formerly known as Twitter?
      - numpad0 7mo ago
        All the numbers I based above comment were either from that link and/or quickly googlable data, nothing special.
skrtskrt 7mo ago
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verdverm 7mo ago
Discord is my goto choice for communities now, but I fear that company is not on a great trajectory either. It's like voting, you're picking for the least evil
_lvbh 7mo ago
Utaite. Will find barely any anywhere else. Thankfully if you're in one of those sub-communities, you don't ever get recommended anything political or American.
tikhonj 7mo ago
There are a lot of small, informal and fuzzy communities around specific interests in Twitter. For example, I routinely run into the same folks talking about some specific areas in PL/FP or in complex systems/resilience engineering. These sub-communities aren't clearly delineated like a subreddit, rather they arise organically through the same set of people following each other or, at least, consistently appearing in each others' feeds and conversations.
rmoriz 7mo ago
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> The reason why Twitter, and Reddit in particular work so well is because of sub-communities that form organically. Which sub-communities are on Twitter right now?

throwaway85825 7mo ago

It seems like most of Japan.

verdverm 7mo ago
Japanese is the second most used language on Bluesky https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_langs.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
- esbranson 7mo ago
  Is the same algorithmic connectivity with Japanese happening on Bluesky as it is on Twitter, or are Bluesky's algorithms just as opaque as Twitter's?
  - verdverm 7mo ago
    I'm not sure myself, however in atproto you can fetch all the data and do analytics, love it or hate it.
- Karrot_Kream 7mo ago
  Japanese Bluesky isn't even close to Twitter yet. No politicians, no actors and actresses, no seiyuu, no utaite, a few mangaka and light novel authors, nobody that talks about trains, though there is the Frieren official account. There's a few Japanese that are just trying to generally meet new people or some that use Blueksy as a 1 way venting valve. And as usual there are some political Japanese. In fact given how small Japanese Bluesky is the amount of politics is quite shocking given that Japanese tend not to be as vocal about politics on microblogging sites. (2ch on the other hand...)
  - ronsor 7mo ago
    Bluesky itself is just a politics magnet.
- numpad0 7mo ago
  But the en:ja ratio is like 5:1. Real population ratio between us:jp is like 3:1, and on Twitter it's more like 1.5:1 by active user count. This means Bluesky is less popular in Japan than it is in English speaking regions.
  - verdverm 7mo ago
    yes, and... would be more appropriate than "but" Our points are not mutually exclusive. Thanks for adding more insight. Is your bsky ratio based on actual users or the data at the link? (which is posts by language) Are there similar content stats for the site formerly known as Twitter?
    - numpad0 7mo ago
      All the numbers I based above comment were either from that link and/or quickly googlable data, nothing special.

skrtskrt 7mo ago

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verdverm 7mo ago

Discord is my goto choice for communities now, but I fear that company is not on a great trajectory either. It's like voting, you're picking for the least evil

_lvbh 7mo ago

Utaite. Will find barely any anywhere else. Thankfully if you're in one of those sub-communities, you don't ever get recommended anything political or American.

tikhonj 7mo ago

There are a lot of small, informal and fuzzy communities around specific interests in Twitter. For example, I routinely run into the same folks talking about some specific areas in PL/FP or in complex systems/resilience engineering. These sub-communities aren't clearly delineated like a subreddit, rather they arise organically through the same set of people following each other or, at least, consistently appearing in each others' feeds and conversations.

rmoriz 7mo ago

- agentic coding developers - micro startup founders - meme lords