Lumina

Lumina is a Bluesky follower tracker. Built to learn more about the AT Protocol and Bluesky, Lumina takes snapshots of your followers and notes changes from one snapshot to the next such as:

• New followers
• Accounts unfollowing yours
• Number of inactive accounts (Deleted or made inactive)
• Number of accounts that have never posted
• Number of accounts that have not posted in the last 31 days

It then displays this information on a small web dashboard make in Flask.

Those interested in their audience growth and engagement patterns over time would be interested in using this tool.

Challenges

The largest hurdle was learning the SDK for the AT Protocol. The SDK, while well documented, took some getting used to and provided a barrier while I learned how it operated. Now, I find it quite lovely to work with.

The second largest hurdle was creating a database with which to store the information that I needed. Re-learning SQL and learning new techniques in SQL to make comparisons lightning fast took a not inconsiderable amount of time.

What I learned

I refreshed my knowledge of writing code in Python and with SQL. I learned about Pydantic and Flask as well as refreshed my knowledge of basic web design. I am quite proud of being able to make a tiny web dashboard and have it successfully pull data from an API.

TODO

• Redesign Lumina to use async, to improve performance.
• Fix bug where if a follower changers their account name it will count as a follow and unfollow
• Track post engagement over time
• Add way to snapshot periodically instead of manually