38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters poll launches on bsky38.com

cultureSep 5, 2026361,933

bsky38.com launched a public poll to name the 38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters of 2026, letting each voter cast up to ten votes. The site reported more than 10,000 unique voters, over 81,000 votes and roughly 15,000 nominees written in about 30 hours. Participants treated the poll variously as a joke, a vanity contest and a campaign vehicle, with users posting self-reported ranks ranging from about 45 to 5,559 and some urging followers to spend one of their ten votes. Ballots include votes for automated accounts, and some users advised blocking the poll account while others argued the list better captures influence than raw engagement tallies. The rollout has provoked mockery, light campaigning, and authenticity concerns about AI involvement, but it is still actively collecting votes and shaping who gets spotlighted on the site.

ceej

@ceej.online

so I’m “under arrest.” interesting. perhaps you didn’t realize I’m one of bluesky’s 38 most influential posters

8812h ago

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙38

now you're under arrest more

聖☆Alex Degen19

You’re disrespecting a future US bluesky influential poster

Hazen Hammel10

COP: (checks bsky38) you are sitting at 156, mr. ceej ceej: see, I'm in the running COP: Will Stancil is at 32 ceej: but I'm doing better than Jerry, and that hippo, right? COP: ceej: right??

Matt Grote8

What the fuck is bluesky

Jay Marose 🦩6

Wait until Jerry hears about this.

[//] Professor Hazard5

they must have specifically chosen "38" to make you sound more pathetic if you try to brag about it

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mayonnaise rudeboy6

what is the charge? posting a skeet? a succulent horrible skeet?

GONZO the Ca'at

@gonzo.bsky.social

Also, i am currinty 45 on tha list , i hav overtakin scalzi butt hamill seems owt of reech fore tha momint bsky38.com

List of bluesky influencers, gonzo is 45

3154h ago

GONZO the Ca'at103

Back up to 42, me and @catsofyore.bsky.social hav naow both left Scalzi in tha dust!

GONZO the Ca'at59

(if i get onto tha 'leederboard" at somb pointe woulde sombone git a screenshot fore me? If i git thare im not likely to stay long,most likely, and wouldnot want to miss it)

Rain's Cats8

I'd bet that @scalzi.com would be tickled that a cat had overtaken him. I kind of miss my human account, where I followed or was mutuals with a bunch of these people. But I just can't let myself log into it anymore. I dissociate and end up doomscrolling for hours.

wonderinguterus7

Tried a bazillion times to vote for you, Buddy, but for some reason the site won't let me sign in despite my credentials being correct on bluesky. Very weird. Sending proxy votes, though!!!

mobrantley7

I tried to give you all 10 of my votes, but sadly that's not how it works.

Lilly Napper,Segrentari ov Sekrits 🎨🖌🫂✨️😊😺5

Scalsi is no smol potadoze!

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texas instruments is a scam2

if gonzo doesn't win this (the great american experiment) was all for nothing

Amanda Zampieri 🪸2

hahaha o @coisacaotica.bsky.social acima do gonzo e do john scalzi 😅

Chaucer Doth Tweet

@levostregc.bsky.social

The fyve hundrid and thirteenthe moost influential blue skye poster!

A screenshot from the "38 most influential blue sky posters" site reveals that the levostregc account is listed as #513 with 18 votes

1622h ago

Chaucer Doth Tweet17

And nowe #469 wyth 20 votes

Carolyn Cee1

Sorrye, ich onlee vote fore cats 😸

Karen Carlson1

A lot higher on my list. But nobody listens to me.

dame

@dame.is

a bluesky user replied to @bsky38.com and said "I don't really want to log into anything powered by Claude AI" dear reader, the Bluesky app is also "powered by Claude AI" 😭

741h ago

dame39

most people probably don't understand that agentic software development is now effectively the industry standard, even to the point that Zohran Mamdani's administration leverages agentic software development this is the reality we're working with, and it's a very tricky environment to navigate

Victoria7

I completely get the aversion to AI usage (I dislike it in many cases too), but damn how it shows they don't have a clue how software development works and not everything that AI-assisted code is slop or dangerous

eve1

they only want it if it's powered by kimi /s

Ariel M. (she/her)1

i'm deleting these people i cannot with them anymore

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist3

Linux Kernel and Windows are LLM-cowritten and probably ios too

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@moxiest.art

not to brag but, only one of bluesky's 38 most influential posters has us blocked

601h ago

Tiger Lily 🐅 🏳️‍⚧️3

At least one has me blocked. Assuming she's still on it. I haven't looked since yesterday

Marghoul1

Not blocked by any 💅🏻

Atticus Finch (of Georgia)

@atticus59914029.bsky.social

Y’all. I’m #5,559 in the contest for top 38 most influential BlueSky posters! Party time! 😂

531h ago

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@esselfortium.bsky.social

people have been talking a lot about who the most influential members are on this site, and what they haven't yet realized yet is that it's me.

423h ago

Bailey Townsend 🦀

@pds.dad

Checking back in with stats before I go back to being mostly offline. bsky38.com has hit 10k+ unique voters!! 81k plus votes, and 15k Nominees. That's at least 10k identities with a com.bsky38.* lexicon in their repo and 81k records written in about 30hrs

81, 780 vote lexicons written, 10,983 are unique, 15,301 unique subjects notified

323h ago

Piper Paige

@pipermintz.bsky.social

People on bsky: waow I wonder who the top 38 most influential posters are People in real life: what the fuck is bluesky I'll kill you

272h ago

Joshua Erlich

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

it is nice that this list generally does include the most influential posters here unlike the pure engagement lists which are polluted by click farming, Betty Bowers ass accounts.

292h ago

🏳️‍⚧️ Helix

@helix.midwestspeedfest.com

honestly the moment i saw bluesky 38 i got a bad vibe and blocked it. didn't even consider that AI may be involved but given that bluesky itself is also vibe-coded junk i shouldn't be surprised. the account is @bsky38.com - block it and don't engage with their popularity contest/AI slop combo.

171h ago