Bluesky Social 17+

it is hard to really say if the app sets the “tone” or the people that use it. Bluesky seems to answer that question I think a lot of people definitely can no longer tolerate X because of the level of toxicity and lack of moderation which is why I found myself on bluesky, but pass that even the timeline itself feels different and more refreshing/authentic.

Is that because of the algorithm and the way it structured or the people that use it knowing what so many of us left behind was souring? so far it has been a much better experience.

I only wish that some of the issues with uploading videos consistently were solved. I can make post but the videos themselves don’t upload and sending pictures in messages would always be a plus.

Downloaded the app a bit ago after the recent changes to twitter and honestly it’s safe to say bluesky is a lot better. No ragebait or drama and everyone’s friendly with eachother. You don’t get bullied for just existing and people actually interact with your posts. The feed is full of wonderful artists and talented people too instead of just being based off who’s the most popular on the app. However Im not a fan of how difficult it is to make your feed match your tastes, even just a little bit. I know you can pin separate feeds to scroll through to see medias you enjoy but they’re often stale, and only show posts that include certain words which causes a lot of posts to go unseen due to not having those keywords.

For example— I follow multiple jjba feeds and post almost exclusively about jjba, and most if not all of my mutuals post about it as well. yet in my time on the app ive only gotten two jjba related posts on my feed and neither of them involved any possible keywords. I understand the main feed is meant to be for discovering new people and making friends and whatnot, but I’d like to enjoy meeting new people who are from MY fandoms without having to join 20 different feed groups in order to meet them. It’s unfair that my feed is full of stuff like super mario and guilty gear but nothing that I actually enjoy. This is an issue for hundreds of people, please don’t ignore our complaints about this.

I downloaded Bluesky a week or two ago, to join some friends that had begun using the app, and I must say, at base value, Bluesky is a functional app, that could absolutely some day serve as plenty of people’s main form of social media (though bookmarks and post drafts are a must for the future). That said, currently, the app’s algorithm fails in huge ways that X’s doesn’t. My feed on Bluesky, no matter what I try, is flooded with posts that don’t interest me whatsoever, and even more frequently, with posts that I actively am seeking to AVOID. For example, SO many posts on Bluesky are people talking up the app, and claiming that it is infinitely better than X. Frankly, I have no skin in that race, but it’s really hard to genuinely believe that Bluesky is superior, when HALF of my Bluesky feed is posts trying to prove that X is bad, meanwhile my X feed is still only content that I actually enjoy and care about. There is a “Show me less content like this” button on Bluesky, but I have clicked it, probably over 100 times at this point, and it has simply done nothing to help curate my feed. I plan to try to stick it out with Bluesky, but for now I will be using X much more. If Bluesky ever wants to get out of X’s shadow, it needs to ditch the little brother energy, and simply be a better app, but currently I unfortunately cannot say that it is.