TodayToday’s numbers
Today’s numbers
The current edition has 1,624 top-list picks (5,948 across all their pages). The funnels below describe the latest full scan of each network. New posts arrive between scans, so those snapshots can differ from the current lists.
Latest full scans: Bluesky ; Mastodon . Scan counts may predate this edition’s topic lists.
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likes, reposts, boosts or replies went into the order of any list. Only our model’s judgement of what is worth reading does.
Bluesky
Full scan: posts from Thursday 8 October 2026, ranked
| Step | Posts | Share of posts read |
|---|---|---|
| Posts read | 84,270 | |
| Bare links, non-English posts and betting spam | 7,766 | |
| Spam and junk | 1,824 | |
| Adult content | 2,015 | |
| Too unclear to understand on their own | 4,701 | |
| Automated posts | 128 | |
| Bot accounts | 99 | |
| Hard-sell advertising | 372 | |
| Not sure enough of the topic to rank | 28,484 | |
| Kept for ranking | 38,881 | |
| Shown after this scan (top lists and “more”) | 1,010 |
Mastodon
Full scan: posts from the 36 hours before the ranking, ranked
| Step | Posts | Share of posts read |
|---|---|---|
| Posts read | 28,689 | |
| Deleted, empty or unreadable | 4,122 | |
| Bare links, non-English posts and betting spam | 2,124 | |
| Spam and junk | 866 | |
| Adult content | 34 | |
| Too unclear to understand on their own | 670 | |
| Automated posts | 376 | |
| Bot accounts | 9,324 | |
| Hard-sell advertising | 77 | |
| Not sure enough of the topic to rank | 5,133 | |
| Kept for ranking | 5,017 | |
| Shown after this scan (top lists and “more”) | 616 |
Opt-outs we honour
Checks recorded during the full scans above.
- 1,683 Bluesky authors had turned on “Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users”, so their posts were left out of that scan.
- For that full scan we re-checked 2,057 Mastodon authors on their own servers and left out 8 whose settings had changed or who could not be verified.
- Our Mastodon collector reads the public feeds of 417 servers (measured ), politely: one request at a time per server.
More about the model on How good is our model? and How it works.