Re:Bluesky just crossed 20M users
by daneel_w on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:19AM
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I gave "bsky" a whirl just a couple of weeks back but unfortunately the impression was not very good. I ticked only tech-ish topics as my main interests, but practically nothing in my auto-generated feed fell into those topics - the overwhelming majority of what I received was just babble of a clear sociopolitical nature, like an unpleasant case of opinionated force-feeding. Anyone else with the same experience? Do I need to follow a bunch of other users (in the tech sphere) for the "algorithm" to even start leaning towards my preferences?
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Re:Bluesky just crossed 20M users
by dandellion on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:34AM
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I tried it a few days ago. I'm European and more aligned with the US left than the right. Even then, having almost all of the posts in the entire platform be one-sided political screeching is just too much noise. And it's a pity because Bluesky has better filtering options than Twitter, but the content is so bad that they're pretty much useless.
I could never get into Twitter because to me the signal to noise is just abysmal, and Bluesky seems to be more of the same.
The discovery feed is indeed pretty shit. You need to find your favorite hashtags / people to follow, like a bunch of things and then it starts getting better. Also you need to change the language in your settings. I'm German and also got a bunch of weird German politic topics despite I never reacted on any non-tech topics. After I removed German in my settings it got much better.
I would give it a try again, it's quite different in only two short weeks. Also, find feeds to subscribe to on places like reddit (r/webdev had a thread IIRC)
Re:Bluesky just crossed 20M users
by pelagicAustral on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:23AM
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Yeah, got the same impression, is just the /leftypol/ version of /pol/, just another extremist echo chamber...
Re:Bluesky just crossed 20M users
by sundaeofshock on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:25AM
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Yes, you do. There are a number of tech focused starter packs out there. You could also look at one of the custom feeds that are curated for tech conversations.