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Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
I’ve curated and organized Bluesky feeds into 50+ categories, now with growth rankings for the past day and week! Check it out and share your thoughts!
- know-how 2y ago[dead]
- stackghost 2y agoVery confusing. I wanted to see if there were any infosec feeds (none appeared on the top 30 trending feeds list) so I clicked the hamburger menu at the top left, went to categories and went to security and privacy. It was all random tools and plugins, so I went back to "Feed Directory" which appears to only be a top 30 trending list. So it's seemingly misleadingly named. Edit: there's another hamburger menu, about 75% down the viewport that has some other stuff in it, idk. Pretty confusing UX
- laimingj 2y agoThank you so much for your feedback! If you're browsing on a mobile device, please use the menu button at the bottom left to expand the category navigation. The category option at the top left currently serves as a navigation tool for Bluesky. We’re actively working to improve this experience.
- MattSayar 2y agoI 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.
- stackghost 2y agoThere was a thread on Reddit recently about how NFL corporate has demanded teams delete their BSky accounts, because of a contractual relationship with X.
- threeseed 2y agoWill be interesting to see how that fairs with /r/nfl banning links to X.
- huhkerrf 2y agoI doubt the NFL is worrying too much. Reddit activism rarely (never?) moves the needle. If anything, it will push more people to X to get NFL news.
- MattSayar 2y agoWell that's highly disappointing
- wsatb 2y agoI don't think it's a contractual agreement with X. The NFL has lots of weird rules, apparently one of them is teams can only create accounts at "approved" social media sites. Probably only a matter of time before it's "approved".
- laimingj 2y agoThank you for your feedback! We’re working on improving the category system and appreciate your input.
- mhh__ 2y agoIn Britain at least I find that Bluesky is mainly populated by the kind of people who really want you to know that they don't like football
- cmxch 2y ago> sports moving to BlueSky Reddit communities are (all of a sudden and by odd coincidence) trying to will that into happening by delisting anything from X.
- smt88 2y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it's not an odd coincidence. It's an explicit response to Musk's Nazi salute.
- jimbob45 2y ago[flagged]
- tdb7893 2y agoA full day seems like a pretty reasonable timeframe for something big to spread on social media (I'm not even gonna touch however you're trying to connect this to BLM). Reddit mods are probably literally some of the most "online" people imaginable so once something is on the front page in one or two major subreddit they are gonna be aware within a couple hours, idk why anyone would think this would need even 24 hours to spread
- mft_ 2y agoI think you’re looking for a conspiracy that’s just not there. It’s just people seeing an idea and jumping on the bandwagon. Plus, if you look at lots of the threads, there are already a pent-up dissatisfaction with the user experience of links to X, so the door was partly open.
- vaughnegut 2y agoI'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
- laimingj 2y agoThanks for your feed back I will update the category system and Search function asap
- serial_dev 2y agoMy 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.
- gotoeleven 2y agoI discovered that BlueSky has a feed called "Marking Her Territory" which is for pictures of ladies peeing on things.
- thijser 2y agoThe site is unreachable for me? Great to see so many good analytics tools pop up for bsky, I'm also working on one that primarily focuses on the fastest growing user accounts if you're interested: https://blue.facts.dev/trending https://blue.facts.dev/trending
- JKCalhoun 2y agoVery cool. It makes it easy for me to check out feeds quickly (and then possibly add them). (Looking for ArtNoAnime but having no luck, ha ha.)
- liontwist 2y agoWhat happened to mastodon? We don’t just want to move from one walled garden to another.
- wsatb 2y agoQuite frankly, it lacks marketing.
- Timwi 2y agoAmen! That was my first thought as well when I saw this.
- kstrauser 2y agoWe’re still here, and my timeline is still packed with awesome people I love talking to.
- WA 2y agoI 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
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoI 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 time seamlessly, e.g. by uploading a copy of your posts to any other server, where your posts are backed up to your local device by default. So then the question is, does Bluesky repeat the error when they get around to it, or does Mastodon fix it with an update, or both or neither? But it's not inherently an advantage for Bluesky, unless they get it right and Mastodon doesn't fix it. > BlueSky has the better name The old thing was called Twitter, which is the same kind of parody of itself as Mastodon. Now it's called X, which is somehow even more of a parody of itself. It turns out having a silly name doesn't stop people from using it.
- brianbest101 2y ago[dead]
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- ipaddr 2y agoI 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 thoughtful if not humor full. I went to threads and they had a variety of posts in different languages. Top link: Tiktok style guy from Japan who does wall pushups. A newspaper cartoon and netflicks infograph follow. I'm not sure why we are not all on Mastodon it's similiar content to this site. Bluesky is getting so much hype but the frontpage content is a tarpool of vile content like someone trained an ai on salon.com and decided to spit out the worst nonsense.
- unethical_ban 2y agoPerhaps the Bluesky recommendations are less tailored/curated and have to do with globally trending comments. Which while having some downsides, it is nice that the filter bubble doesn't close around someone too quickly. I also assume that Bluesky as the political refugee camp from Twitter means it has a lot of participation from the liberally politically active at this moment. (Patton Oswald's post was not vile, just to be clear). Honestly I thought Mastodon and Bluesky were part of the same fediverse, I guess I need to do some learning.
- ipaddr 2y agoReally I found Patton Oswald post to be so vile it tainted all the other posts. Don't ever listen to people outside of your identity group even when they are right and they are helpful, save your kids from drowning because you may form a bond and then one day you realize you are close to someone outside of your identity group. Of course his story had strawman of a Nazi in some impossible scenario. How truly awful to break out of fake identities and connect to a real person on a human level. On the one hand you have Martin Luther King Jr sacrificing his life just so others can do that and on the other side you have some drunk, almost famous pile of garbage who wants to separate anyone different so he can live in some bubble in some world where the biggest bubble gets to crush everyone elses. He needs to crawl back into the segregated hole he came from. I didn't expect it from someone so privileged. It's just the worst of humanity. Parts of bluesky are parts of the fediverse. So are parts of threads and wordpress now.
- williamjinq 2y agoA well-designed directory site! Saw my Bluesky scheduler (https://skyblaze.app/ https://skyblaze.app/) on it :) Thanks!
- laimingj 2y agoThank's for your support
- anileated 2y agoIf weird sun twitter was on Bluesky, in which category would it go?
- pjc50 2y ago"weird sun twitter"?
- jslakro 2y agoAm I the only one who reads Bansky when sees bsky?
- ykonstant 2y agoI just always read it Bansky at this point.
- riffraff 2y agono, I'm with you
- bryanrasmussen 2y agobusky would seem to be the most reasonable pronunciation.
- arccy 2y agoThe perfect web comic for this: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/meme-girls/bansky/viewer?title_no=304446&episode_no=322 https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/meme-girls/bansky/viewer?...
- petesergeant 2y agoI don't get it, could you explain it?
- ozmodiar 2y agoIf there's one thing I don't think you get banned for on Bluesky it's porn so that comic made zero sense.
- notahacker 2y agoThere's a part of me that still sees it as BSkyB, the old corporate name for the UK's largest satellite television network
- ykonstant 2y agoI 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 feeds help, but I want to... "Discover" new people, not lock myself into a pre-prunned garden. In particular, the above list is ok for avoiding the awful slop, but the devs need to be much more aggressive (if they have the will, of course) about understanding and respecting user choices.
- makeset 2y agoI signed up, typed "c++" in the search bar, and the results were... gay porn. I might reinstall and try again when the Rust lobby chills out.
- teamonkey 2y agoYou 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.
- cma 2y agoThere are also curated "booster packs" with one click following of everyone in a category (type of artist, industry, etc.)
- TheFreim 2y agoThe booster packs, at least the ones I've found, don't help at all. I followed a handful of tech-related booster packs and more than 50% of the posts are merely political at best, rage bait at worst. I'm going to have to find a way to unfolloe everything or just not use the site.
- vekker 2y agoHonestly, it just highlights how little traction Bluesky has. We tried it within our company's niche, but it's like a desert. Feeds that rarely get updated. 0 engagement. What's the point? Whatever you may think of the management, X does the job (and arguably better than before). You can just filter out the stuff you'd rather not see on your feed. Also, I second the other commenter's mention of the lack of sports on BlueSky. That's a pretty large category not to have...
- jaimex2 2y ago[flagged]
- coldcode 2y agoSadly 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.
- mpalmer 2y agoYeah... Reddit's still the MVP here. But tbh I'd take the ghost town of BlueSky over what passes for programming discourse on X. Long since taken over by video producers and tech bros pushing their "grindset"
- pjc50 2y agoMany tech people left Twitter for Mastodon before Bluesky took off. Some also left for cohost, but unfortunately that has just closed down due to lack of funds. I'm currently on bluesky, but that also has the "no sustainable funding" serious bug. Also it's a frankly miserable place until US election misery dies down, which may take a while.
- velcrovan 2y agoIt's a feedback loop as well; I refrain from saying anything too nerdy on BlueSky because it feels “off-topic”.
- laimingj 2y agowe add a category for programming, check it out here: https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/software-development/ https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/software-development/
- Saris 2y agoMastodon probably has a lot more of that, at least it feels like it.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- laimingj 2y agoThanks everyone for your feedback! We’ve listened to your suggestions and, after one day of launch, we’ve improved the category system. There are now 28 main categories with around 160 subcategories, and we’ve also added a search function, so you can now search by keywords.
- Terretta 2y ago"Real Housewives" from Bravo television is in Science & Technology. And while college is academia, I'm not sure "College Football" is expected in "Research & Academia". How was this "curated"?