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

I really dont understand why we cannot just go back to chronological as a default. This is how I use X/Twitter, and anything else that lets me just go chronological.

What is meant by chronological here? Do you mean you follow some people and your Home page just arranges all the posts by those you've followed chronologically? Because that is what Mastodon does. And while I personally prefer it to be this way, this won't work for the user who just wants to see the type of posts they like, not necessarily the people they like. The recent exodus of American and Brazilian people from X is thus divided into those who chose Mastodon and those who chose Bluesky, with the latter having a much larger number. Make of what you will.

Best would still be RSS feeds and everyone having their own blog. Just saying.

I think blue sky has a default chronological following feed too? Twitter pushing for you instead of following is kinda notably distinct.