• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • win95@lemmy.zip
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      28 days ago

      I use 4 feeds:

      • Following - full control over who I want to see
      • Popular with friends - I use this to find new people since my mutuals are liking these posts
      • Booksky - just everything reading related
      • GameDev - speaks for itself

      What I also like better than Twitter is whenever I reply to someone / quote tweet someone but block them after, other people won’t be able to see the post anymore. I’ve noticed (at least for now) that helps a fair bit against pile-ons and rage baiters. Hope it stays that way.

    • index@sh.itjust.works
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      28 days ago

      The main problem with bluesky is not posts that you don’t like, it’s whatever it’s centralized or not.