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:
Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
A picture of black hole (which is great!)
Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
Science / Astronomy content
Video Game Post
Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
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.
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.
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:
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.
I registered and I felt the same as you. Not worth my time.
Is this a fresh account that you went to the discover tab on?
Yep.
I recommend using bluesky like old twitter if you do use it. Follow people you’re interested in otherwise you’ll only see the most noisy types.
I use 4 feeds:
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.
The main problem with bluesky is not posts that you don’t like, it’s whatever it’s centralized or not.