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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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190 points amichail | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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MostlyStable ◴[20 Nov 24 15:46 UTC] No.42194943[source]▶
If one of the options is "only show me content by people that I have explicitely followed/subscribed to", then I might be interested.

I completely understand why social media companies need to have some kind of an algorithm. Without one, when you first join, your feed would be completely empty and I'm sure that user retention after the first visit would be near zero. I do not understand _at all_ why it isn't at least an option to, at some point, decide I only want to see content from people I have actively selected.

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1. fckgw ◴[20 Nov 24 15:48 UTC] No.42194982[source]▶
That's the default feed option. There is no "for you/trending" algorithm on Bluesky.
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2. dpkonofa ◴[20 Nov 24 15:54 UTC] No.42195055[source]▶
Not as a single feed. The "Discover" and "What's Hot Classic" feeds duplicate that behavior, if I'm not mistaken.
3. dragonwriter ◴[20 Nov 24 15:56 UTC] No.42195072[source]▶
“Discover”, “What’s Hot Classic”, and “Popular with Friends”, of the Bluesky-provided feeds (there may be others) are different versions of that concept, but there is not one shoved down your throat like on many other social media apps.