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0 pointslexandstuff2y ago0 comments

I finally got an invite code to Bluesky. During onboarding, it gave me a list of feeds to choose from. For some reason, they've decided to have no tech whatsoever in that list of feeds. I guess I'm a bit of a loser, but I don't have many interests outside of tech, so I picked nothing and now I have an empty feed.

Is that the goal of Bluesky, to be Twitter for non-tech people? Seems like a surprising approach, given that the first users of Twitter were exclusively tech peeps.

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kmlevitt2y ago

You need to teach it what kind of stuff you like. If you go on Twitter and look at peoples’ bios, they often list their blue sky handles. Start following tech journalists such as https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

Then, peek into their own “following“ lists, and follow everybody you recognize/like.

Then go into their “following” lists, and do the same. Rinse and repeat.

Eventually, the algorithm will take the hint and start recommending you more tech stuff.

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