[drusepth]

The two feeds on Bluesky are "Following" (only posts by people you follow show up) and "Discover" (largely dominated by posts by people you don't follow). There are two huge tabs at the top of your feed to switch between them.

If you are following 0 people, the "Following" feed acts similar to the "Discover" feed. As soon as you follow a single person, it works as you'd expect (only showing content from people you've followed).

[TiredOfLife]

I follow multiple people. The following tab shows a couple of their posts and the rest is just random posters

[CommieBobDole]

Something is terribly wrong, then; my following feed shows posts (and certain replies) from people I follow in reverse chronological order, and nothing else, ever.

Are you maybe seeing things that have been reposted by people you follow? There's a lot of that, but those still count as "posts from people you follow". If you want to exclude those, there are settings at the following link:

https://bsky.app/settings/following-feed

Also if you just want to not see them sometimes, there's a feed you can add called 'OnlyPosts':

https://bsky.app/profile/skyfeed.xyz/feed/only-posts

[TiredOfLife]

Those settings did nothing.

And that only-posts feed is even stranger. It only shows 3 days. People I follow have months of posts.

[drusepth]

Do those random posts have a "Reposted by (person you follow)" line at the top of them?