I analyzed 119 posts from this week's #TuneTuesday on Mastodon.

The numbers aren't huge:

🎵 119 posts
👥 76 unique participants
❤️ 140 favorites
🔁 247 boosts
💬 44 replies

But that's exactly what makes it interesting.

Most social media trends are driven by a small number of highly visible accounts.

#TuneTuesday looks different.

76 unique authors generated just 119 posts, which means participation is spread across the community rather than concentrated around influencers.

This week's theme (#OdeToTheWall) produced an unexpectedly diverse soundtrack:

🎸 Classic rock
🎷 Jazz
🎻 Folk
🎹 Blues
🎧 Indie

The data also shows:

🎵 "song" mentioned 43 times
🎵 "music" mentioned 41 times
📺 YouTube links shared 38 times
🎧 Spotify links shared 8 times

People aren't debating.

People aren't doomscrolling.

They're basically showing up once a week to exchange music recommendations with strangers.

From a data science perspective:

High author diversity + low engagement concentration = community participation, not influencer amplification.

The internet could probably use more trends like that.

#Mastodon #DataScience #TuneTuesday #Music

The Caves Of Altamira - Steely Dan

Since @tc_morekindness hasn't shared it yet...

I recall when I was small

How I spent my days alone

The busy world was not for me

So I went and found my own

I would climb the garden wall

With a candle in my hand

I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand

...

Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall

When there wasn't even any Hollywood

They heard the call and they wrote it on the wall

For you and me, we understood

#OdeToTheWall #TuneTuesday

Today's top ten tag trends:

10: #ocarinaoftime
9: #ThickTrunkTuesday
8: #tercinema
7: #TextureTuesday
6: #普段一次創作書いてる人の二次創作
5: #ArtemisIII
4: #belfast
3: #odetothewall
2: #TuneTuesday
1: #SnackATownOrPlace

#trendytoots 📈

It's #tunetuesday , you know what that means!

This week we're looking at an #odetothewall and I just recently discovered something magical. Martini Ranch was a side project for the wonderful Bill Paxton, and this song features Cindy Wilson of the B-52s!

"In a world without walls
World without walls
Dance to the rhythm of a beating heart
In a world
World without walls"

Martini Ranch ft Cindy Wilson - World Without Walls

https://tidal.com/track/5392278/u

The Call - The Walls Came Down

https://youtu.be/AKCyzI3evFw

#TuneTuesday #OdeToTheWall

There's always a They Might Be Giants song...

TMBG – Climbing the Walls

https://youtu.be/sUdoDhLZ9-Q

#TuneTuesday #OdeToTheWall #TMBG

#TuneTuesday's theme is songs about walls: #OdeToTheWall

Panopticon - Four Walls of Bone
https://panopticon-nordvis.bandcamp.com/track/four-walls-of-bone

Since the theme for #TuneTuesday is #odetothewall I'm very sorry, but I'm going to have to post this very literal ode to the wall - the Berlin Wall, to be precise.

Yes, they meant it. I don't think Leninists are capable of irony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm2NfbAppZw

Bill Bragg~ Why We Build Walls https://youtu.be/d0EOVt9WzJk?si=d9OETVtndlnQZ4vt
‘Who do we call the enemy?
The enemy is poverty and the wall keeps out
The enemy and we build the wall to keep us free; that's why
We build the wall. We build the wall to keep us free’

#tunetuesday #odetothewall
#poverty #Music