This is pretty standard online though - even regular Google has settings like "Safe Search:On" that you can toggle to moderate your search results.
It really just depends on what the default settings are when you arrive at a service before you start using it, and how obvious and discoverable you make those settings controls.
Well, that's the whole point of the whole thing. Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol, which will be federated early this year. https://bsky.social/about/blog/11-15-2023-toward-federation
I know everyone likes to shit on all Social Media that isn't called Mastodon, but that doesn't mean Mastodon is the only option. I am on both (and Twitter a bit still too) but Bluesky is where I spend most of my time.
I like it over there. Of all the Twitter alternatives I think it ticks the right boxes.
If they can bridge their AT Protocol with ActivityPub then I don't see why it can't take off.
It's more that it pops up in Image Searches all the time and it's almost always a useless example of what you're searching for.
It's like the text version of Pinterest.
I remember waiting a month at a time hoping to see a hint for whatever game I was stuck on, only for it not to be featured - or perhaps even worse; to see a hint for that very game but one I'd already figured out myself! Urgh! Gaming in the 80s / 90s was a challenging affair!
This article also skips over the other option we had back then - premium rate phone numbers that....slowly.... read .....out .....some .....barely ......relevant .....facts .....about ......the ..... game ......at .....£1 ......a .....minute ......with .......maybe .....the ......hint ......you .....wanted .....after ......costing ......your ......parents .....a .....£12 .....phonebill.
Honestly, I'm so jaded with this government that I just assume anything they announce is either just a disraction away from whatever ghastly thing they're really doing or it's some culturewar bait to stir up trouble.
Looking forward to using my PS5 to play a PS4 game that looks like a PS3 game.
Love me some EDF. Can't believe it's taken so long to finally sort the English Language version of this thing. It's been out since August 2022 in Japan!
Well there's one obvious answer to all these - the dead awoke and left the graveyard en-masse. I've seen that happen in films.
Mastodon is great if you want a social media site that'll have people shout at you for not putting a Content Warning on a post about you eating a ham sandwich.
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith. Get some of those Dazed & Confused vibes.
Your default timeline view on Bluesky is just 'posts from the people you've chosen to follow, in date/time order'. That's the algorithm.
Everything else is optional and you can choose whatever other timelines or views you also want to see. If you only want to see the posts from people you follow then you don't need to subscribe to any other feeds / algorithms.