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Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by ivewonyoung on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:24PM (#43366894)
I frequently have the opposite problem where the algo is pushing liberal accounts tweeting $OUTRAGE_OF_THE_DAY
Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by irelephant on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:51PM (#43367182)
The algo is designed to surface accounts you may like to follow. Hence, its called "discover". You may enjoy a custom feed more.
Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by hbn on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#43367003)
For twitter being supposedly a right wing social media platform, the only tweets I see break 100k likes are extremely left wing political takes (and Elon's tweets cause he's almost surely gotten him to be artificially pushed in the algorithm).

I've seen theories that there's like botting happening on those posts, and it kinda seems likely given how little real interaction they get.

Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by _bin_ on Friday March 14, 2025 @05:02PM (#43367278)
i notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more.

i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that there's almost certainly a special case in the code that artificially boosts/follows him.

Re:Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to t... by almosthere on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:28PM (#43366946)
Same