{"id":5762,"date":"2025-12-21T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:15:18","slug":"2025-in-social-media-bluesky-and-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5762","title":{"rendered":"2025 in social media (Bluesky and Mastodon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still miss Twitter, despite it being <a href=\"https:\/\/dalelane.github.io\/twitter-archive\/\">over two years since I left<\/a>. My main replacements have been <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dalelane.co.uk\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.org.uk\/@dalelane\">Mastodon<\/a>, even though I don&#8217;t use them as much as I used to use Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Continuing my effort to save the end-of-year reports from my various homes across the web, here is what I get from Bluesky and Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Bluesky<\/h3>\n<p>When do I post?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/01-bluesky-posts.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/02-bluesky-posts.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/03-bluesky-posts.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When have I liked other people&#8217;s posts?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/04-bluesky-likes.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/05-bluesky-likes.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/06-bluesky-likes.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When have I followed new people?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/07-bluesky-follows.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/08-bluesky-follows.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/09-bluesky-follows.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<h3>Mastodon<\/h3>\n<p>What did I post this year that got the most reactions?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/10-mastodon-posts.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What did I post this year that got the most replies?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/11-mastodon-replies.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/12-mastodon-replies.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What did I post this year that got the most boosts?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/13-mastodon-boosts.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What did I post this year that got the most favourites?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/14-mastodon-favorites.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border: thin black solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dalelane.co.uk\/2025-12-21-social\/15-mastodon-favorites.png?raw=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bluesky and Mastodon don&#8217;t produce end of year reports, so thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/romiojoseph.github.io\/bluesky\/bluesky-user-statistics\/\">Romio Joseph<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.analytodon.com\">Analytodon<\/a> for these.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still miss Twitter, despite it being over two years since I left. My main replacements have been Bluesky and Mastodon, even though I don&#8217;t use them as much as I used to use Twitter. Continuing my effort to save the end-of-year reports from my various homes across the web, here is what I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","tag-2025-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}