The main problem with BLUESKY is that it’s the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here’s the first 10 things in my feed:
Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
A picture of black hole (which is great!)
Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
Science / Astronomy content
Video Game Post
Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
Boring US Political schlock defending Dr. Fauchi
So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I “fix” that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.
Well… Then… Just don’t follow those people. My personal feed is 100% artists and scientists. That’s the fun part of Bluesky; unlike Twatter, you’re not forced to see all the cringe and ragebait.
And you don’t have one asshole owner boosting visibility of his own posts and those of accounts he likes, and lowering visibility/shadowbanning those of people he doesn’t. The “For You” feed tends to have not stuff you actually enjoy, but things that make you angry.
That’s what it’s actually named in Twitter, so I’m not going to stop calling it that just because you’re triggered by … a completely different website.
Popular with friends - I use this to find new people since my mutuals are liking these posts
Booksky - just everything reading related
GameDev - speaks for itself
What I also like better than Twitter is whenever I reply to someone / quote tweet someone but block them after, other people won’t be able to see the post anymore. I’ve noticed (at least for now) that helps a fair bit against pile-ons and rage baiters. Hope it stays that way.
What’s up with the multiple account in this thread that refer to BlueSky in all caps? Is this one person spamming from multiple accounts, or is that a thing?
The article body originally had it in all caps and once I noticed that I rewrote my comment that way. The article now shows it as “Bluesky” (no capital S) which is apparently the correct way. I dunno wtf is going on.
It is exactly like that, which probably is the point. I never got on with Twitter even before the downfall. Now on Bluesky I’m being selective about what I like and follow. I’m gradually getting the kind of feed that I like to see and reply to. It takes quite a bit of work to influence the algorithms to your liking, but it offers a different social outlet than what Reddit-like sites can offer.
The main problem with BLUESKY is that it’s the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here’s the first 10 things in my feed:
So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I “fix” that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.
Well… Then… Just don’t follow those people. My personal feed is 100% artists and scientists. That’s the fun part of Bluesky; unlike Twatter, you’re not forced to see all the cringe and ragebait.
And you don’t have one asshole owner boosting visibility of his own posts and those of accounts he likes, and lowering visibility/shadowbanning those of people he doesn’t. The “For You” feed tends to have not stuff you actually enjoy, but things that make you angry.
Please stop calling any homepage timeline a “For You”, I don’t want to get reminded of Ti##ok’s existence.
That’s what it’s actually named in Twitter, so I’m not going to stop calling it that just because you’re triggered by … a completely different website.
The main problem with bluesky is not posts that you don’t like, it’s whatever it’s centralized or not.
I use 4 feeds:
What I also like better than Twitter is whenever I reply to someone / quote tweet someone but block them after, other people won’t be able to see the post anymore. I’ve noticed (at least for now) that helps a fair bit against pile-ons and rage baiters. Hope it stays that way.
What’s up with the multiple account in this thread that refer to BlueSky in all caps? Is this one person spamming from multiple accounts, or is that a thing?
The article body originally had it in all caps and once I noticed that I rewrote my comment that way. The article now shows it as “Bluesky” (no capital S) which is apparently the correct way. I dunno wtf is going on.
Yeah. Autocorrect on macOS keeps correcting to capital B and S. There is some sort of existing proper noun in its dictionary. Weird.
A quick Wikipedia disambiguation shows many Bluesky and Blue Sky, as well as these two candidates:
I chose to believe it was the developer of Ninja Golf.
It is exactly like that, which probably is the point. I never got on with Twitter even before the downfall. Now on Bluesky I’m being selective about what I like and follow. I’m gradually getting the kind of feed that I like to see and reply to. It takes quite a bit of work to influence the algorithms to your liking, but it offers a different social outlet than what Reddit-like sites can offer.
Is this a fresh account that you went to the discover tab on?
Yep.
I recommend using bluesky like old twitter if you do use it. Follow people you’re interested in otherwise you’ll only see the most noisy types.
I registered and I felt the same as you. Not worth my time.