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

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Post by ipaddr » Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

unethical_ban wrote: post #109

ipaddr wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was about not letting anyone not like you in a bar. If they are black and you are white watch out he might be nice but he is going to bring his black friends. You can replace Nazi with any strawman group.

Ah, I see. You seem to think that there is a spectrum of benevolence when it comes to people who wear Nazi symbology.

Of course a spectrum exists. For example Prince Harry on one side and Hitler on the other.

Misses his original point. Exclude those different from you and segrate. That's the one lesson he always remembers. Truly sad individual.

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

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Post by ipaddr » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 12:15 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #110

ipaddr wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was about not letting anyone not like you in a bar. If they are black and you are white watch out he might be nice but he is going to bring his black friends. You can replace Nazi with any strawman group.

> It was about not letting anyone not like you in a bar. No, it was about Nazis. You’ve chosen one of the infinitely many different arguments that would imply the conclusion argued for but are not implied by it, and chosen to claim that is what is being argued for. If done in good faith, this is just embarrassingly sloppy reasoning. If not...

It was about excluding people different from you. He uses Nazi as straw men because they reference a character that doesn't exist and that would never be in a bar in New York. But this is the one thing he remembers and lives his life by.

He has never met or even seen a Nazi. He wants you to exclude those different from you. We need to include.

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

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Post by cowdingx » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 12:54 PM UTC

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…

This is my experience. It seems like an app built for one purpose: to make fun of Trump/ Musk. And some random pictures of space and flowers to throw us off the scent of clearly auto-generated content.

Even engagement with this post is suspicious tbh, and there are many accounts at the ready to counter any naysayers. It seems like an attempt to win favour with those in the tech community.

So no, I don’t need filtered lists of already-generated AI slop.

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

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Post by Saris » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #81

Sadly programming topics have not gotten much traction on BlueSky. You don't even have a real category for it (just generic Technology) as it's not all that popular. Most the programming related feeds are majority zero engagement.

Mastodon probably has a lot more of that, at least it feels like it.