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Re:We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky by threeseed on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:43PM (#42762835)
You can. Threads achieved this for a while before Zuckerberg capitulated.

All you need to do is down-rank political content in general and prevent it from appearing in For You type feeds.

Then it just becomes a case of people needing to specifically follow political content which heavily limits its reach.

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Re:We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky by rexpop on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:08PM (#42764890)
Down-ranking "political content" requires a definition of "politics" which is, inherently, an ideological posture, QED all content that remains is "political content."

It's an oxymoron.

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Re:We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky by threeseed on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:10AM (#42767439)
Like I said Threads did this and it was effective.

So much so all the journalists left for BlueSky and they have had to reverse it.

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