Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media.

One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

They have, the front page is all about how terrible Trump is right now.

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.

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.

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky.

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

That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.