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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 3 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dang ◴[19 Feb 25 18:14 UTC] No.43105332[source]▶
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amazingamazing ◴[19 Feb 25 18:09 UTC] No.43105271[source]▶
I don’t understand the infatuation with blue sky. The minute they need money it’ll go the way of the Reddit and twitter.
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bowsamic ◴[20 Feb 25 12:05 UTC] No.43113717[source]▶
My bluesky feed is somehow even more abhorrent than my twitter one, except that instead of right wing hate it's Facebook memes about "reading banned books"
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1. rsynnott ◴[20 Feb 25 15:09 UTC] No.43115611[source]▶
Bluesky's 'Discover' feed (the default algo feed that you get when you create your account) is based on _likes_, not follows, so if you never like anything you'll get random nonsense.

You can try using other algo feeds from here: https://bsky.app/feeds and remove the discover feed, or of course you could just use the chronological one.

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2. bowsamic ◴[20 Feb 25 15:35 UTC] No.43115936[source]▶
But when everything I see is awful, what do I like? I think that's my classic issue with feed style websites
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3. rsynnott ◴[20 Feb 25 16:38 UTC] No.43116836[source]▶
You follow _people_, and ignore the 'Discover' feed, is generally my personal solution to this. YMMV.