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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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knallfrosch ◴[19 Feb 25 18:43 UTC] No.43105732[source]▶
Anyone following hundreds of thousands of users is obviously a bot account scraping content. I'd ban them and call it a day.

However, I do love reading about the technical challenge. I think Twitter has a special architecture for celebrities with millions of followers. Given Bluesky is a quasi-clone, I wonder why they did not follow in these footsteps.

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1. mikemitchelldev ◴[20 Feb 25 13:34 UTC] No.43114438[source]▶
BlueSky has starter packs that allow you to mass follow in the click of a button. You join 10 starter packs in one day, you are following over 1000 people. Sometimes following others is the only way to get people to engage with your content.