The thing about the chronological timeline is that if you have something you want to share, you have to share it a lot. And if you see something you think others should see, you have to hit repost (likes are not public).
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I believe if there are new comments by someone you follow on a post of someone you follow that it will show upon your timeline again? The comment being new but not the post.
The "Discover" feed is non-chronological and populates based on the algorithm you train with your first likes and follows. The "Following" feed is basically chronological, but can be interspersed with material from your other feeds if you turn that setting on. Other feeds may vary.
Oooh - good info!
I always like to ‘like’ posts to show I like them & support folks pets or hobbies etc
I don’t have a big following & don’t really care but hate to bother folks with all my ‘likes’ showing up in their timelines.
So grateful I saw your post!
Or it has to be good and be picked up by followers and reposted. It’s very democratic and filters content by quality. That’s how Twitter worked in the beginning. Beautiful in its simplicity. The algorithm ruined that site long before Musk took over
You're confusing bluesky with mastodon. Likes are public here, and can be used to decide post visibility in feeds. Reposts are the most direct way to say "you should read this too", but likes can be used too.
The Discover feed is default for newer users, and that works more like the default twitter feed - but the algorithm seems geared to actually trying to show people things they like.
Though quote post indicate you like something, so quote dunking can do awkward things to your algorithm results.
1/2 And if you want, that "special folks" see your posts, take the feedname as a hashtag in your post, so it will not only be seen on your profile, but also in this feed, where people, who are interested in the theme (Art, medicine, birds, cats ☺️.... ) These are not only your followers, but all
That's the one thing I missed about Twitter. I want to see stuff in real time from people I follow. Then I started seeing the SAME shit over and over because it was reposted again and again by people I followed, and I never really say anything new when It was posted.
Mastodon and Tumblr both work this way, too. It's one of the reasons I repost so much stuff, reflexively. I have been well trained by my social media hangouts.
I am not in the habit of clicking on hashtags regularly and I don't have a "trending" window up or anything (they exist, I just don't use it), but I am sure many others do. I think these things are still shaking out.
It doesn't really help that every time I open the app, I'm taken to the latest posts instead of where I left off. Which makes it reverse chronological, I guess? That's my biggest beef with the Following feed so far.
It also restores a sense of the ephemeral. For years, I had contemplated a blog that simple replaces the daily post with another leaving no record of the previous day.
I think this would be a timely intervention and one that B*****y supports in a way. The outrage factory requires infinite demand.
A really bad move. Retweets (and here reposts) are for when you really like something and want the world to know. Likes a sign of approval or encouragement. I’m so pleased that the distinction is back here
It's wonderful! I always hated the fact that my reactions and interests were pushed willy-nilly into other people's feeds like monsters from my id. If I see something I think other people will enjoy or benefit from, I'll repost it, dang it!
I really don't care if people don't share my HAWT TAEKS, but I've seen people like posts I've made about an emergency boil water advisory here and… that's not helpful.
Right? If I even think about reposting something of my own, I can hear my grandmother's voice saying, "Don't brag." Don't draw attention to yourself. I have done book readings where I didn't get any photos. I've done important things at work and didn't tell anyone. I just don't know how to do this!
Okay, so I'm going to try something. Lots of folks I know have recently joined here, and they're looking for advice on how things work here. I'm going to share the excellent advice from @lollardfish.bsky.social about reposting. That's sort of like sharing my post. I'll see what Grandmother says.
Q. about Bsky norms: is it considered helpful here, or seen as obnoxious, to reshare your own posts from previous points in the chron timeline if the post originally didn't get much visibility?
I find it helpful, but I only returned this week after being gone for ages; don't know the vibe on this.
This is good to hear. I just wrote a dissertation of a post thread in some insomnia hours that I think is an important conversation, and I got NOTHING. Well, yet. It was just a few hours ago. People in my time zone are barely awake. I haven’t figured out visibility here yet.
Thank you! I am, too. Last time I tried but couldn't seem to gain momentum after several months. It already feels more robust and dynamic since Monday night!
I do a daily post each night (in addition to other random posts) It sometimes gets immediate responses, sometimes not much. I used to feel awkward re reposting it in the morning, but I decided to get over this as it’s all part of advocating active use of BlueSky. Now reposting is part of my routine.
We have very few norms other than "be a decent person." We seem to be fine with promoting your own work, and I don't see why this wouldn't count. If someone doesn't like it, they will unfollow you; problem solved.
We tend not to get huffy and to give people slack, so go for it.
This is maybe just a me thing, but because I try to curate my follows in such a way as to be able to read everything they post the first time, reposts are just so much clutter, and I've unfollowed a few folks because their ratio of repost to content was too high.
I say this not to convince anyone to do anything different, but to let others who feel this way know they're not alone. I've actually thought about writing/hosting my own custom feed that would allow me to follow prolific reposters without seeing all their posts five times each. :)
As I follow a lot of journalists, activists, media makers, comedians, and misc, there's no way for me to see it all. I do need to spend some time making specific lists to narrow down, but I have no idea when I'll have the time to do that.
I repost or do a slight rewrite. But I’m mostly doing a reminder about the Internet Archive being hacked (which approx. everyone forgot) and urging people to document the now and save in offline places.
Reskeeting your own content is encouraged to catch other times of the day. Just don't be that guy that reskeets the exact same thing 12x a day; you'll start to look like a bot.
I really appreciate Bsky's chronological feed. I do have fomo that I'm missing something at any given moment, but the reality is that corporate algo curation structurally suppressed most of what I wanted to see (and on a grand scale, radicalized hate groups, supercharged disinfo, etc).
Yes. After playing an active role in the collapse of local print, radio, and TV news... the same tech companies that intentionally enshittified their social platforms would up erasing one of the most urgent functions they filled in the absence of local news: immediate disaster and crisis comms.
It’s common and encouraged – no algorithm to resurface older things so the people who weren’t online when you posted might absolutely have missed it, and seeing as how here’s people from many different time zones it makes perfect sense
I’m frequently a two stage sleeper. Go to bed 9ish, wake up at 3, game or play music few hours, then sleep another solid hour or two before office at 8:30. I don’t call it insomnia anymore. Made it work.
Super acceptable. Especially for people who want folks to see it across timezones or whatever. Also super acceptable to introduce yourself after a huge influx of new users...like now!
Well, more meant that reskeeting yourself when a bunch of new users join is very common to help introduce yourself with what you think is your best stuff! :)
I’ve wondered the same thing. When I’ve gone to the trouble of writing detailed alt-text for images I’ve posted here, it’s disappointing when the post seems to slip by with hardly any notice. I think reskeeting would be fine, in moderation.
I do it all the time when it's just easier than typing out the same point again. If it's ALL you do people will probably get annoyed at it but as a general "I've talked about this before..." when it's relevant, sure go for it.
I’m finding “Popular with Friends” is helping me catch a lot of that stuff, as a consumer at least. What’s wild is how much more engagement I’m getting here, with 1/4 the followers!
If I see something interesting, I have to reskeet it so my folks can see it. It requires more engagement from me. But at the same time, engagement begets engagement.
And many Xitter power users were reluctant to come over here (probably because we don’t have an algorithm, and because coming over here meant starting over building audiences)…
Thanks, it’s not showing up there for me, but I stumbled upon it under search where there’s a suggested feeds list. Perhaps the top three list changes as you use one regularly? In any case, thanks for helping me know to look for it!
I like feeds where a person can return a few days later — or a few seconds later! — scroll down, and see a post they remember seeing and want to read again or further investigate or share it with someone. Appears to be the case here at Bluesky, at least the feeds I read regularly.
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I always like to ‘like’ posts to show I like them & support folks pets or hobbies etc
I don’t have a big following & don’t really care but hate to bother folks with all my ‘likes’ showing up in their timelines.
So grateful I saw your post!
Anyway, I have a WordPress where I write a lot of stuff: https://newvirago.com/. Everybody go have a look!
It won't boost the post, but some people might not like furry porn if they know their kids might see it
Most use the "Following" which included either posts of followers or responses to posts where you follow both parties.
I personally use the "follow & replies" feed
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oio4hkxaop4ao4wz2pp3f4cr/feed/follows-replies
One issue with DIY feeds is a lot of them are keyword/emoji based without that extra layer.
Though quote post indicate you like something, so quote dunking can do awkward things to your algorithm results.
I think this would be a timely intervention and one that B*****y supports in a way. The outrage factory requires infinite demand.
I followed hundreds of people, but my timeline might as well have been two dozen.
I find it helpful, but I only returned this week after being gone for ages; don't know the vibe on this.
We tend not to get huffy and to give people slack, so go for it.
quote respost yourself
if people don't like it they will self-select out of your content and that's ok
bluesky encourages being a prolific skeeter over a lurker to build your community
(it's ok if you want to lurk and not skeet)
After all, why should my Most Clever Post be denied the world just because I posted when few happened to be looking at the feed.
Spam wise, repost foolish
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But another intro never goes amiss!
Good to know reposts are all part of the culture here.
It’s also the design.
We don’t have an algorithm. We are the algorithm.
If I see something interesting, I have to reskeet it so my folks can see it. It requires more engagement from me. But at the same time, engagement begets engagement.
https://bsky.app/profile/lollardfish.bsky.social/post/3l7tph3hpjj2f