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I really tried to like Bluesky. Even wrote a minimal PDS to help gain a technical understanding of the platform.

In the end though I found the social aspect was a similar experience to what the author of this piece describes. Boring, repetitive, and full of a particular type of person I have no desire to interact with.

So I went back to X, which for all its flaws at least has interesting content and, perhaps most importantly, has no equivalent to Bluesky's "nuclear block", so you can follow, and even participate in, divisive discussions where someone has been blocked.

Wikipedia had that problem for a while too, to the point where some of the pedophiles were Wikipedia admins, and were softening the language in pages discussing pedophiles and pedophilia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080915002726/http://www.wikisp...

I noticed the same, which was off-putting, but not as much as how dull it is, and how badly the "nuclear block" feature ruins conversations.

Can't really see a future for Bluesky outside of the niche communities that are already established there.