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Why I recommend against Bluesky. (thelibre.news)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm probably an idiot, but my experience was exactly the opposite. I don't really feel like following specific users (at least for now), I just want to follow hashtags. Super easy to do on Mastodon, but I couldn't figure it out on Bluesky.

I never used Twitter, and am not particularly excited about the general format, so I'm probably not the target user, but I check Mastodon occasionally, and gave up on Bluesky after like 2 days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

On Bluesky you follow starter packs which are collections of users which go to your main feed. https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

Or you follow feeds which are set up by users to track certain topics. These can be very highly customized follows of people, hashtags, keywords, crowd tagged topics, including blocks of certain stuff. These are like subreddits or Lemmy communities. https://blueskydirectory.com/feeds/all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I saw those and appreciate the idea, but I didn't like them, at least not yet. I just want to follow a few cat related tags, maybe some FOSS stuff, and some tags relevant to my local area. I just clicked through a few feeds related to each of those, but didn't like any of the ones that came up. Each feed contains posts that seem totally irrelevant and I don't understand why they're included or how to tweak my feed to remove them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

For me the feeds solve a lot of problems with straight hashtags, like getting stuff that's the wrong language, or bot spam. But I guess if you are just going for visual stuff that stuff may be easier to tolerate.

If you don't like the feeds that are out there already, you can build your own feed. https://www.southernfriedscience.com/a-quick-and-dirty-guide-to-making-custom-feeds-on-bluesky/