2 Million Bluesky Posts
A Bluesky Social dataset of approximately 1.8 million public posts, collected by Alpin Dale from the AT Protocol firehose API in 2024. Each record contains post text, author handle, timestamp, image presence flag, and reply-to URI for constructing directed reply-thread networks. multilingual corpus from a decentralized AT Protocol platform with English dominant alongside Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and other languages. Suitable for decentralized social media analysis, reply network structure, and multilingual content modeling.
Cite this dataset at
bluesky-2m.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,270,247 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 1.9M records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
bluesky-2m- Authors
- Dale, Alpin
- Year
- 2024
- License
- Apache-2.0; dataset usage subject to Bluesky's Terms of Service (Apache-2.0)
- Records
- 1,907,530
- Nodes
- 1,270,247
- Edges
- 929,253 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- follow
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- de, en, es, fr, ja, pt
- Collected
- 2023-02 (2020s)
- Tasks
- Bot detection inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/alpindale/two-million-bluesky-posts link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 713.4 MB across 22 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{dale2024twomillionbluesky,
author = {Dale, Alpin},
title = {2 Million Bluesky Posts},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/alpindale/two-million-bluesky-posts}}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Dale, A. (2024). 2 Million Bluesky Posts [Data set]. https://bluesky-2m.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Dale, Alpin. 2 Million Bluesky Posts. 2024, bluesky-2m.echo.directory/.