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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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785 points cyndunlop | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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spoaceman7777 ◴[20 Feb 25 00:36 UTC] No.43109707[source]▶
Hmm. Twitter/X appears to do this at quite a low number, as the "Following" tab is incredibly lossy (some users are permanently missing) at only 1,200 followed people.

It's insanely frustrating.

Hopefully you're adjusting the lossy-ness weighting and cut-off by whether a user is active at any particular time? Because, otherwise, applying this rule, if the cap is set too low, is a very bad UX in my experience x_x

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VWWHFSfQ ◴[20 Feb 25 01:49 UTC] No.43110145[source]▶
> It's _insanely_ frustrating.

> at only 1,200 followed people.

I follow like, 50 people on bluesky. Who is following 1,200 people? What kind of value do you even get out of your feed?

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1. throw10920 ◴[20 Feb 25 13:14 UTC] No.43114241[source]▶
I can come up with 100 people I'd want to follow on Twitter, and I don't even have an account. Don't dismiss other people's use-cases if you don't have or understand them.