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Tech media and tech personalities dominate Bluesky's nearest neighbor set — with no other social media platform appearing in the top 10.

Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition. Bluesky's shape is flat: the top 10 neighbors span a narrow band from 0.96 down to 0.94, with no single entity pulling sharply ahead. The Verge leads at 0.96, followed closely by WIRED at 0.95 and Gizmodo at 0.95. Medium (0.95) and Jack Dorsey (0.95) round out the top five. Across all ten positions, the subcategory breakdown is heavily weighted toward tech-adjacent media: websites (Ars Technica at 0.95, Co.Design at 0.94), blogs (Wirecutter at 0.94), and magazines (WIRED), alongside two Tech Personalities in Dorsey and Naval Ravikant (0.95). The one structural outlier is Ogilvy (0.95), a B2B brand — the sole non-media, non-personality entry in the top 10. No other Social Media entity appears among the ten nearest neighbors.

The flat, tightly compressed scores across this cluster of tech publishers and tech-world figures suggest Bluesky's audience is defined less by platform behavior and more by a coherent interest profile centered on technology media consumption.

Nearest neighbors by audience shape

Cosine similarity over Persona Live audience composition.
"Entities whose overall audience profile most closely matches this one — people who follow one tend to follow the other."

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Attention graph /similar sample results  (free):
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