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Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics (www.japantimes.co.jp)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (16 children)

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.

[–] Tattorack 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dirthawker0 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] dirthawker0 4 points 2 months 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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