• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    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:

    1. Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
    2. A picture of black hole (which is great!)
    3. Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
    4. Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
    5. Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
    6. Science / Astronomy content
    7. Video Game Post
    8. Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
    9. Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
    10. 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.

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      17 days ago

      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.

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        17 days ago

        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.

        • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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          16 days ago

          Please stop calling any homepage timeline a “For You”, I don’t want to get reminded of Ti##ok’s existence.

          P.S.: lol it looks like I’ve pissed someone

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            17 days ago

            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.

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      17 days ago

      I use 4 feeds:

      • Following - full control over who I want to see
      • 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.

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      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?

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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        17 days ago

        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.

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          17 days ago

          Yeah. Autocorrect on macOS keeps correcting to capital B and S. There is some sort of existing proper noun in its dictionary. Weird.

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      17 days ago

      The main problem with bluesky is not posts that you don’t like, it’s whatever it’s centralized or not.

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      17 days ago

      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.