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Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by leonidasv »

ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

What I don't like about Mastodon is the way it federate servers. For example, if someone on server B "retweets" a post from server A, it does not carry over likes and comments from server A. That means personal instances are cumbersome and big servers always have a bigger leverage. That also implies you have no single page to just see all the comments about that post.

Bsky, on the other hand, does not have such hard splitting between servers (comments belong to the post on ATProto network, not to the instance) and allows you to run your own personal instances (PDS) natively. You can even transfer your profile and data (including followers) to other instances. IMO, it's a better tackle on building a federated social network.

But yeah, the native recommendation algorithm is lackluster.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by spencerflem »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #43
WA wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Mastodon will have its place, but won’t grow much. BlueSky will grow more instead of Mastodon. Reasons: - BlueSky is mostly centralized and easier to understand. No server choice stuff - BlueSky has the better name - BlueSky has the cleaner UI

I want to disagree with the first two of those: > BlueSky is mostly centralized and easier to understand. No server choice stuff It's not supposed to be this way even though it is right now. They're intending for it to be actually fully federated. But the "server choice" stuff is a bug in the existing design of Mastodon anyway. It shouldn't matter which server you pick because you should be able to change it at any t…

BlueSky is also centralized in terms of search, for pragmatic reasons. You can search across every bluesky post and cannot on mastodon, for better or worse.

I'm on mastadon, but its clearly harder to use, and theres way lower engagement.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by teamonkey »

ykonstant wrote: post #46

I took the bite and made an account on Bluesky, my first time on such social media. Very disappointing thus far: I have been pestered and followed by bots and no amount of blocking does anything. I am trying to curate my feeds with mutes, blocks and "I want to see less of this" to cultivate an art/science/nature/programming feed, and the app keeps shoving politics and rage bait down my throat. Custom and Following fe…

You need to follow people, not block. Unlike Facebook or X there is no strong algorithm (although feeds are technically custom algorithms, but they're mainly lists of people or posts that contain certain keywords) but once you follow enough people, you pretty much only see their content, more-or-less in order.

If you don't follow enough people, your feed is filled with whatever's trending at that moment. Blocking when you don't follow anyone will not train an algorithm, it will just replace that person's content with something else.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by spencerflem »

halyconWays wrote: post #33
ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

I think Bluesky's content is largely defined by the crowd of people that left Twitter. Like Voat when Reddit had its embrace of censorship, only the other way around: opposite politics, and it's more based around being upset that perceived extremists are being given a platform.

It's worth mentioning - for those who don't know Voat - that it was a wasteland of Racism, Antisemitism, and Genuine Honest To God, Stated Plainly, Can't Miss It Naziism.

I was interested in it back when it was called Whoaverse because reddit sucks (obviously) but it devolved fast and hard.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by laimingj »

vaughnegut wrote: post #67
MattSayar wrote: post #5

I know it's a minority opinion with this crowd, but sports has such a large presence on X and I don't know why it's lagging moving to BlueSky. I like the categories on this site but "sports" doesn't even make the cut while "eSports" does.

I've found a lot of NHL content on Bluesky, to find people I went to a subreddit and searched for Bluesky to get recs on who to follow

Thanks for your feed back

I will update the category system

and Search function asap

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by catapart »

liontwist wrote: post #18

What happened to mastodon? We don’t just want to move from one walled garden to another.

Seems healthy to me. It's around 1/3 the size of Bsky (which is, itself, a small fraction of twitter's user count), but it is still maintaining just shy of a million DAUs, which is not that far off from Bsky's 1.2-1.5 million DAUs.

Bsky has a better UX so it attracts a wider diversity of users, which can make it seems more prominent than masto, but the value of federation is interoperability. Mastodon can keep all of its users and still share its content on bsky and vice versa. It's not a zero sum for one of them to win or lose.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by serial_dev »

MattSayar wrote: post #5

I know it's a minority opinion with this crowd, but sports has such a large presence on X and I don't know why it's lagging moving to BlueSky. I like the categories on this site but "sports" doesn't even make the cut while "eSports" does.

My experience is that the majority of the BlueSky users are there because they do not find X acceptable since Elon took over.

It's a slightly broader Mastodon crowd. They tend to be liberal, quite often techies, some celebrity obsessed people (swifties, etc) and some hustlers who thought it's their big opportunity to establish themselves on a new and growing platform. I assume this crowd likes real sports less (or at the very least, watching and reading about professional sports), yet they are still okay watching eSports. Some sports are also more popular outside of US/EU, and they care less about the whole resistance and culture war, therefore less likely to end up on Bsky.

But I'm just speculating and building imaginary stereotypes based on the people I saw going there, being there.

And with all that said, I see plenty of sports accounts there, even in the feed linked here, NBA, NFL, so I may be full of sh it.

I tried to search for MMA on bsky, but the search is cooked, and I don't see a single result.

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