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I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of polit

I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of political rage bait on the main discover feed? Yup. I wanted to like BlueSky, but it's such a bizarre echo chamber of people who left Twitter for ideological reasons that it basically filters for people that I actively don't want to engage with. Those types of people are still there on Twitter (mostly on the other side these days), but I don't see them because the algorithm filters them out.

jghn 1y ago
I never see that but on both sites I only ever look at the feed that only includes people I follow. I don’t understand why anyone would use a feed that includes other co the t
- JimDabell 1y ago
  New users follow zero people on Bluesky.
  - jghn 1y ago
    Yes. And I seeded my feed with people I already knew. Just like I did with Twitter back in 2008. And just like Twitter all those years ago, from seeing what they repost, I expanded my network. People who are incapable of finding content without a "discovery" or "for you" feed get what they deserve.
    - JimDabell 1y ago
      > People who are incapable of finding content without a "discovery" or "for you" feed get what they deserve. If this is a typical attitude to the new user experience, no wonder Bluesky isn’t succeeding.
      - jghn 1y ago
        Why would anyone want a "discovery" type of feed on any site? On sites that insist on showing me content from things I don't follow I just block it.
mrbombastic 1y ago
They do really need to do something about this, I am not on regularly anymore but there was a period where i kept getting weird sexual posts of dudes in diapers, no matter how much i blocked or asked not to see that.
- gs17 1y ago
  > or asked not to see that That's part of the problem, I'm not sure that actually does anything.
nocoolnametom 1y ago
You've got three tools, mutes, blocks, and lists. Yeah, there's no centralized algorithm that does it for you, it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy to prune your main feed into looking how you want it to look. Which is pretty much like how it was to use Twitter a few years ago before everything got algorithmed.
- gs17 1y ago
  > Yeah, there's no centralized algorithm that does it for you, Bluesky doesn't really present it that way. The default "Discover" feed at least pretends to be exactly that. > it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy to prune your main feed into looking how you want it to look I think this has changed recently. Months ago I tried to actually use Bluesky, and my Discover feed was awful. 90% of my time on the site was muting/blocking or thinking "show more/less like this" did something and it was an miserable experience which nothing seemed to improve except quitting it. Checking it now, it's dramatically better. Still includes a lot of content I don't want, but less aggressively so, although that seems to largely be that I was gone so far it could be mostly content from accounts I follow.
  - notacoward 1y ago
    A Bluesky dev has admitted that the "show less/more" items did nothing. It was in the context of supposedly hooking them up to real code at long last, though I've yet to see any practical difference. Anyone who claims they worked all along is not arguing in good faith.
    - gs17 1y ago
      That's hilarious. No wonder they didn't seem very effective.
- JimDabell 1y ago
  > it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy If it takes a couple of days of actual effort, then it’s not extremely easy, especially for the average user who can just go to Threads with their existing Instagram account and not be bombarded with furry and diaper porn.
JeremyNT 1y ago
> I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of political rage bait on the main discover feed? Yup. Unlike X, blue sky defaults to simply showing you a feed of the people you follow, in chronological order. This is the best way to use the app

jghn 1y ago

I never see that but on both sites I only ever look at the feed that only includes people I follow. I don’t understand why anyone would use a feed that includes other co the t

JimDabell 1y ago
New users follow zero people on Bluesky.
- jghn 1y ago
  Yes. And I seeded my feed with people I already knew. Just like I did with Twitter back in 2008. And just like Twitter all those years ago, from seeing what they repost, I expanded my network. People who are incapable of finding content without a "discovery" or "for you" feed get what they deserve.
  - JimDabell 1y ago
    > People who are incapable of finding content without a "discovery" or "for you" feed get what they deserve. If this is a typical attitude to the new user experience, no wonder Bluesky isn’t succeeding.
    - jghn 1y ago
      Why would anyone want a "discovery" type of feed on any site? On sites that insist on showing me content from things I don't follow I just block it.

mrbombastic 1y ago

They do really need to do something about this, I am not on regularly anymore but there was a period where i kept getting weird sexual posts of dudes in diapers, no matter how much i blocked or asked not to see that.

gs17 1y ago
> or asked not to see that That's part of the problem, I'm not sure that actually does anything.

nocoolnametom 1y ago

You've got three tools, mutes, blocks, and lists. Yeah, there's no centralized algorithm that does it for you, it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy to prune your main feed into looking how you want it to look. Which is pretty much like how it was to use Twitter a few years ago before everything got algorithmed.

gs17 1y ago
> Yeah, there's no centralized algorithm that does it for you, Bluesky doesn't really present it that way. The default "Discover" feed at least pretends to be exactly that. > it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy to prune your main feed into looking how you want it to look I think this has changed recently. Months ago I tried to actually use Bluesky, and my Discover feed was awful. 90% of my time on the site was muting/blocking or thinking "show more/less like this" did something and it was an miserable experience which nothing seemed to improve except quitting it. Checking it now, it's dramatically better. Still includes a lot of content I don't want, but less aggressively so, although that seems to largely be that I was gone so far it could be mostly content from accounts I follow.
- notacoward 1y ago
  A Bluesky dev has admitted that the "show less/more" items did nothing. It was in the context of supposedly hooking them up to real code at long last, though I've yet to see any practical difference. Anyone who claims they worked all along is not arguing in good faith.
  - gs17 1y ago
    That's hilarious. No wonder they didn't seem very effective.
JimDabell 1y ago
> it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy If it takes a couple of days of actual effort, then it’s not extremely easy, especially for the average user who can just go to Threads with their existing Instagram account and not be bombarded with furry and diaper porn.

JeremyNT 1y ago

> I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of political rage bait on the main discover feed? Yup. Unlike X, blue sky defaults to simply showing you a feed of the people you follow, in chronological order. This is the best way to use the app