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0 pointslukev1y ago0 comments

If you are good about curating your follows, you can get a nice nonpolitical feed on Bluesky.

That said this is definitely not the week to try to calibrate that, since everyone currently has Big Feelings even if they're normally not overtly political.

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sph1y ago

Fair enough. My issue is that it seems people have Big Feelings for one reason or another since 2015 and increasingly so. I really do not wish to have to work to train the "algo", especially when Twitter-like social media is worse than useless. It takes no time for my favourite people I follow to suddenly start spamming my timeline with the drama-du-jour.

On these social networks, either you are (un)willingly enlisted in the American Culture Wars, or you're best served not using them at all.

lukevOP1y ago

No no that's my point: Bluesky has no algorithm. You see only the posts of people you follow, in order, and nothing else (unless you deliberately subscribe to "discovery" feeds.)

So you have complete control.

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