š blogs.social Weekly Stats Wrap-Up ā May 29, 2026
appy Friday, friends! ā Time for our weekly peek under the hood at how the blogs.social universe is humming along. Let's dig in. Claude Opus 4.6 helped write this post with stats from https://blogs.social/stats
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The Big Numbers
We're sitting atĀ 5.8K total authorsĀ across the platform āĀ 1.8K standard.siteĀ document authors and a healthyĀ 4.0KĀ joining the party via BridgyFed. Federation is doing its thing, and we love to see it.
(Quick terminology note: when the stats dashboard says "Native," it's referring to authors withĀ standard.siteĀ documents on the network ā blogs that exist as AT Protocol records, whether or not they've gone through domain verification. BridgyFed authors are blogs from the wider fediverse being bridged in. We will think of a better name though I'm not sure "unverified" is right)
On the content side?Ā 2.7 million posts.Ā Two-point-sevenĀ million. That's a whole lot of words shipped into the atmosphere. š
This Week's Activity
The weekly active author count landed atĀ 3.9KĀ for the rolling 7-day window. Here's how it breaks down:
ā¢ šĀ standard.site authorsĀ ā 885 active this week (+3% WoW). Steady growth.
ā¢ šĀ BridgyFed authorsĀ ā 3.0K active, dipping slightly (-2% WoW). Normal fluctuation.
ā¢ ā Ā Verified authorsĀ ā 200 active, up a whoppingĀ +32% WoW. The verification story keeps getting better.
Overall author growth is flat atĀ -1% WoWĀ ā but the composition is shifting in an interesting direction with verified authors surging.
Yesterday's Snapshot
Just yesterday we hadĀ 2.3K active authorsĀ pushing outĀ 25.0K postsĀ ā that's roughlyĀ 10.9 posts per author.
ā¢ š standard.site: 323 authors / 2.4K posts
ā¢ š BridgyFed: 2.0K authors / 22.6K posts
ā¢ ā Verified: 54 authors / 72 posts
š Top Verified Publishers This Week
Here's who's actually been shipping content with a verified domain this week:
1. š„Ā dailyintheword.blogĀ ā ~39 posts
2. š„Ā linh.leaflet.pubĀ ā ~18 posts
3. š„Ā mafis242.deĀ ā ~10 posts
4. mineinmono.blogĀ ā ~9 posts
5. haiku.leaflet.pubĀ ā ~8 posts
6. ichihito-ohi.pckt.blogĀ ā ~6 posts
7. johnbeales.comĀ ā ~5 posts
8. jeanruaud.leaflet.pubĀ ā ~4 posts
9. volcano-papers.offprint.appĀ ā ~3 posts
Verification Check-In
The overall verification rate sits atĀ 0.3%Ā ā here's how it breaks down:
ā¢ ā Ā 8.1KĀ posts from standard.site verified authors
ā¢ āĀ 2.4MĀ posts unverified
ā¢ ā³Ā 287.1KĀ posts from authors we haven't checked yet
There's a big backlog in that "unchecked" bucket. Room to grow here for sure.
30-Day Trends
The May 1ā3 BridgyFed onboarding wave is still visible in the charts. We started indexing and backloaded a lot. Since then, we've settled into a healthy baseline ofĀ 50ā100 new authors per dayĀ with daily post volumes hovering betweenĀ 20Kā26K. WAA has been rock-steady between 3,500ā4,000 for the full 30-day window. Stable and sustainable.
When Are You All Publishing?
The hourly heatmap shows clear patterns this week:
ā¢ š„Ā Wednesday through Saturday, 14:00ā20:00 UTCĀ is the hot zone ā this is when the most content is being published across the network.
ā¢ Weekday afternoons (MonāFri) show consistent activity, with the intensity building as the week progresses.
ā¢ Sunday and early mornings are the quietest slots.
Late afternoon UTC is your sweet spot. ā°
Top Federated Domains
The most active publisher sites flowing through the standardverse this week:
1. shima.donmai.usĀ ā ~3,500 postsĀ (the booru sites stay busy)
2. sukebei.nyaa.siĀ ā ~750 posts
3. betabooru.donmai.usĀ ā ~750 posts
4. oglobo.globo.comĀ ā ~750 posts
5. rlsbb.ruĀ ā ~730 posts
The open web continues to beā¦ exactly what it says on the tin. Anime imageboards, Brazilian news, and everything in between. š¤·
Language Breakdown
The community stays beautifully global.Ā EnglishĀ leads at ~40%, but we're seeing strong representation across:
šÆšµ Japanese (~10%) Ā· š§š· Portuguese (~10%) Ā· š“ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó “ó æ Scots (~8%) Ā· š©šŖ German (~8%) Ā· šŖšø Spanish (~8%) Ā· š«š· French (~6%) Ā· š®š¹ Italian (~4%) Ā· š·šŗ Russian (~3%)
...plus Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, and more. The standardverse doesn't have borders. š
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š§ Under the Hood
One quick note for the technically curious: this week we shipped a fix to how the stats dashboard calculates activity metrics. Previously, we were usingĀ ingestion timeĀ (when a post hit our system) rather thanĀ publication dateĀ (when the article was actually written). That meant archive backfills ā like a site importing their entire 750-post catalog at once ā would spike the weekly charts. We now use the article's actualĀ published_atĀ date with a safe fallback, matching the pattern already used in our convergence ranking. The numbers you see above reflect this fix. š
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TL;DR
ā¢ š„Ā Weekly Active AuthorsĀ ā 3.9K (-1% WoW)
ā¢ šĀ standard.site ActiveĀ ā 885 (+3%)
ā¢ ā Ā Verified ActiveĀ ā 200 (+32% š„)
ā¢ š¬Ā Yesterday's PostsĀ ā 25.0K (10.9/author)
ā¢ šĀ Total PostsĀ ā 2.7M
ā¢ š„Ā Total AuthorsĀ ā 5.8K
ā¢ šĀ Verification RateĀ ā 0.3%
ā¢ šĀ Top VerifiedĀ ā dailyintheword.blog (39 posts)
The verified author surge continues to be the headline āĀ +32%Ā week-over-week. People are betting on provenance and trust, and on a platform built on AT Protocol, that feelsĀ right.
See you next Friday. Keep shipping words. āļø
