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by delecti 584 days ago
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 muted words.

What you see is up to you. If you don't like what you see, there are a ton of levers in your control.
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llm_trw 584 days ago
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 been told to curate our own garden for reddit, twitter, mastodon, etc. It never works because people who see that and like it join by the millions and those who don't don't.

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delecti 584 days ago
You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky.

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

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llm_trw 584 days ago
That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.
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melodyogonna 583 days ago
Serious question here, I use Twitter all the time but I still don't understand this. What do people mean when they say Twitter is toxic?
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valval 583 days ago
You seem to be advocating going to a party where the lobby is full of people yelling about something annoying, and then pushing past them to some separate room where those same people are talking about something else, for the moment.

I’d rather pick a different party.

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delecti 583 days ago
Except there's not really "a" lobby. It's a building with equally sized entrances on the red light district, wall street, silicon valley, and capitol hill. A lot of people happen to be coming in from capitol hill at the moment, because a pretty significant event just happened. Just because you know there's an entrance to the building on capitol hill, doesn't mean that's where you're coming from when entering the party. As soon as you have an account, you never need to acknowledge that entrance again.

It just seems weirdly petulant to make a stand based on that. Even more so considering the post about Trump winning was similarly a front page post here, and that thread got more votes and comments than almost any I've ever seen here. And here there really is only one "front page".

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llm_trw 583 days ago
What do you call the place where everyone has to go through to get to every other place?

The lobby.

This is a UX decision that the blue sky team made to make signing up more streamlined and its one that's very poorly thought out. Given its the same people who almade twitter it's no surprise they are making the same mistakes.

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