Hello! I’m in a taxi with bad phone signal - I’ll try to reply to you all later - so just to say I’m happy to be here, utterly bewildered by how it works, but thrilled to see so many old faces from the good ol’ days on Twitter
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I like the feeds “discover” and “popular with friends,” which allow you to see things besides just who you follow. Have to follow lots of people before it gets interesting. Otherwise you’ll just see the same ten posts over and over and think nothing happens here.
G'day Greg. It's super easy over here and generally a good place. Two things: there's no algorithm so your feed shows things chronologically rather than boosting things from other times; and because there's no algorithm, likes won't change how visible a post is, so if you want to boost, reskeet it.
Welcome! The other day a pol scientist I follow here but didn’t on Twitter needed some historians in his field, I put them in touch, also here, so I think this place has made it 👍
Welcome! My recommendation is to follow as many interesting people as you can to get your feed populated otherwise you may feel it's not active enough for you. You can always prune later if it becomes too much of a firehose.
Yes, my sense is that it’s more a place to talk to colleagues than a place to promote things. It’s nice for that. Not so good for public engagement/publicity.
Also add this feed to your Bluesky thingy. It allows you to see posts from people who are less active. There’s no algorithm, so it’s easy to miss interesting quiet-ish people otherwise.
Welcome! It is starting to feel like old Twitter here, with the added benefit that the cultural expectation is that if someone is trolling, or annoying, or you just don't want to deal with them, you mute or block them rather than engaging. It helps so much!
Sounds like you're trapped in the Tardis, unable to quite join this multi-Dr special. So every time you get close, in your "taxi", we'll lob another suggested list at you.
If you find and follow a bunch of people and feeds you like then it is (so far) quite like old Twitter without the annoying x person liked y tweet littering up your feed.
You can opt to have posts from the feeds you've pinned in your main feed which helps keep a nice people/hastag mix.
As others have said, much like pre-algorithm Twitter (there are user-made algorithms but that gets a bit technical. Check out custom feeds when you have time). Welcome!
Yay!! Slowly but surely, all the good people coming over here! Bring all your pals with you too! Try the sky bridge then tell (nice) people to join you here!
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connect with folks, post your stuff
Maybe if I post even more than I've been doing...
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq
Nothing to be baffled about. It's lovely.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/feed/for-science
You can opt to have posts from the feeds you've pinned in your main feed which helps keep a nice people/hastag mix.