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Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics (www.japantimes.co.jp)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] maxenmajs 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is exactly like that, which probably is the point. I never got on with Twitter even before the downfall. Now on Bluesky I'm being selective about what I like and follow. I'm gradually getting the kind of feed that I like to see and reply to. It takes quite a bit of work to influence the algorithms to your liking, but it offers a different social outlet than what Reddit-like sites can offer.

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