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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by delecti »

llm_trw wrote: post #164
delecti wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is "the front page"? Scrolling through the first couple dozen posts on my following feed, I see a selfies, science educators, artists, makers, a couple naked people, a complaint about days getting shorter, and a few people talking about health conditions they've gotten under control. If you don't want to see people talking about Trump, follow people who don't talk about Trump. Or add "trump" to your list of mute…

Open https://bsky.app/ in incognito mode and you get to see the front page. Currently the top post on the latest refresh is: >I'm honestly surprised he hasn't started selling stool samples. His followers have been buying his BS for years, so it seems like a natural next step... https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb... This is not a network I want to join if this is the popular content. We've be…

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by throwawa14223 »

threeseed wrote: post #62
smrtinsert wrote: post #5

What's preventing everyone from putting their faith in another broadcast medium just to have it sold to Elon again? It's hard to trust social media these days. They have 0 incentive to be "good" from a variety of perspectives not just political.

> They have 0 incentive to be "good" Yes they do. X has shown the more trusted and safe your platform is the better it is for advertisers and your bottom line.

Why would I want to be on a platform that is friendly to advertisers?

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by epistasis »

skybrian wrote: post #109
epistasis wrote: post #34

Back in the news net days, there used to be a parable about a Berkeley hot tub. The owner would give out the code to people, and it would be a good party with a rotating cast of characters for a while, until eventually a few people ruined the party. Then the code would change, and a different crew would start coming through. Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of keeping a single social netwo…

These starter packs sound like a good idea, but I have a hard time using them to find interesting people to follow. When I look at at the "People" tab, they look like pretty impressive people (academics, etc), and then I look at the "Posts" tab and it's the usual noise: cat pictures, politics, etc. Not a lot of signal.

Maybe I've just been starved on Twitter/C for so long, but the signal was real for me, but in science there's been a sudden exodus to Bsky and an outpouring of joy that people are able to find new papers again and discuss conference talks live and post whatever they're cooking in their kitchen or lab. It's like the old days of Twitter are back, but it does take a lot of work to find that corner.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by llm_trw »

delecti wrote: post #171
llm_trw wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open https://bsky.app/ in incognito mode and you get to see the front page. Currently the top post on the latest refresh is: >I'm honestly surprised he hasn't started selling stool samples. His followers have been buying his BS for years, so it seems like a natural next step... https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb... This is not a network I want to join if this is the popular content. We've be…

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by seba_dos1 »

dyauspitr wrote: post #75
chevman wrote: post #55

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control. It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago. https://joinmastodon.org/

Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?

They already had 8 years to overrun it.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by dyauspitr »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #176
dyauspitr wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Federated and no control just means it’s going to be overrun by trolls at some point?

They already had 8 years to overrun it.

You don’t get trolls unless you have a lot of people on there already.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by quantadev »

jrflowers wrote: post #157
quantadev wrote: post #137

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If anybody is wondering what sort of political viewpoints quantadev is talking about, one example is they posted that The Onion and Alex Jones are the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138285

I love having "followers" like you, jrflowers. Did you ever figure out how to setup that URL that pulls up just my posts?
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