Hello, I have heard bsky has “starter packs” with cool people in a list to help make sure your feed has stuff in it. But how do I find them?? Perhaps reply with your favorite starter packs??
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Hi Hank!
If you'd like to check out some "local" music, have a look at the musician starter packs in the quoted post. I'm working on the 26th one with over 1600 artists, bands, orchestras and independent labels! https://bsky.app/profile/florgoth.bsky.social/post/3kwqqrctvwx2g
I've seen people post about them here, but weirdly it's hard to search for them from within Bluesky. Google does a good job though. For example, here's a science communicator starter pack: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/fkearns.bsky.social/3l3qzidkd5723
Yeah, they’re user curated and will show up on a tab of the profile of the user who created it. I usually hit up the profile of someone after I follow to see if they have any.
I'm a retired school librarian, independent book reviewer & past President of Intl Assoc of School Librarianship - please add me to the pack, if appropriate!
I don’t have any starter packs, but I do have the #GameDev orientation packet! It’s mostly intended to help game devs get started on the platform, but there are some general tips that are valuable for anyone here. 😁
Today was The Great ShakeOut, a day of earthquake safety awareness, so in honor of that: here's @geohenning.bsky.social's starter pack of seismologists and geophysicists! Come learn about Earth from us! https://go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k
I want to share the #ME #LongCovid starter pack with @hankgreen.bsky.social but am still learning the ways of this place @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social (Socorro!)
I don’t have a starter pack, but I did want to say thank you for all the things you’ve said and posted about your cancer. It really, really helped my own journey this year. (Almost clear!)
I am listening to “The Tangled Web” (a layman’s explanation of the whole sideways gene thing) for the second time. I was very excited to see this starter pack even though I know I’ll only understand about 5% of what goes on here! 🌳🕸️🦠
Thank you! I’m an interior designer/jewelry/custom silver button maker by trade so this is outside my wheelhouse, as they say. But that’s what makes it so interesting!
[squints at a note card, then reacts with exaggerated shock] Oh wow damn it says here that https://joshcrowley.bsky.social is one of the best people you can follow on here—a grievously underfollowed account providing great political takes and funny jokes. He also made a Tetris you play with your face.
Unrelated to Starter Packs, but relevant to your interests, there is a Science feed. You just need to tag your posts with the test tube emoji to be included in it.
Commenting to follow the thread, a few people have poked me to make a starter pack for cartoon, games, and comedians "industry folks" pack and I don't know where to start or if its already been done.
This one has done wonders for the dataviz community. It is optimized for engagement, so a preference for people who post regularly over big names who are not really here.
If anyone can help me find my fellow music and science folks kindly point me in the right direction as well. I’m making my way over here from Instagram.
@pirulla25.bsky.social, eu n tinha certeza se isso seria do seu interesse ou não, mas, revendo a sua série dos dinossauros, eu concluí que, provavelmente, é algo que vc gostaria, pelo menos, de dar uma olhada o7
5 minutes in and my feed is full of anime nonsense. Pretty sure I didn't select that as an interest on my profile. Took a while to get my Threads algo trained so I'm expecting more of the same here.
Yeah, my discover page is full of anime & sexual drawings, I made this account months ago but only just started using it today & that definitely isn't what I wanna see lol
I tried the simple solution of typing in "starter Pack" in the search line... Came up with a bunch of interesting ones, then people I followed from there started posting their own...
Good to see you here! Here’s a starter pack by @gettoknownature.bsky.social of nature photographers who post their own pics (not stolen or AI stuff) and use alt-text https://go.bsky.app/DknVNVG
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If you'd like to check out some "local" music, have a look at the musician starter packs in the quoted post. I'm working on the 26th one with over 1600 artists, bands, orchestras and independent labels!
https://bsky.app/profile/florgoth.bsky.social/post/3kwqqrctvwx2g
Climate scientists: https://go.bsky.app/7Mbnoge
Climate journalists & writers: https://go.bsky.app/8nWce1T
Climate policy, strategy, & justice: https://go.bsky.app/LEyg9kh
Climate communications: https://go.bsky.app/S5CE7Kq
Here's a list of nature photographers in case you need some birds, mushrooms, frogs and other good stuff in your feed.
https://bsky.app/profile/fmriguy.bsky.social/post/3l6oty3pfmo2x
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtiaups4rwybqzff4ssnyvbn/lists/3l6qvmfglvz22
https://go.bsky.app/HzVc9m7
Thx
paul's cool and here's a big list of them.
https://go.bsky.app/F83WT3
Direct link to the disability starter pack here: https://go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
https://bsky.app/profile/ginapieters.bsky.social/post/3l6qfkhpoic2k
https://bsky.app/profile/gretchenmcc.bsky.social/post/3l6q3pk6esf23
😇
( Not sure if there's a cucurbit feed for if you want the pumpkins/penguins combo)
If you like to get news & politics updates from verified sources, checkout our News & Politics feed.
Tip: You can pin any feed to your Home page by tapping the feed, then tapping the blue “Pin to Home” button
Disability, Neurodivergence and Chronic Illness is one
https://go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
https://go.bsky.app/HukJbZ5
You can bookmark posts with a pushpin emoji. 📌
https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3l6pulr6hof24
"man it's a bummer hank green hasn't posted on bluesky in 7 months"
There's definitely more lists out there, I've yet to uncover them
Meanwhile, here's a starter pack for NFL news:
If anyone sees this, feel free to suggest people (including yourself). And I'd appreciate help sharing it
https://go.bsky.app/42e6NCs
https://go.bsky.app/2NKjZdu
https://go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g
https://bsky.app/profile/aaronsojourner.org/post/3l3uujfzw4h2x
https://go.bsky.app/BMnnq1f
Here are three of them that are related to astronomy, space, cosmology, etc. The first one is regional to the Australian and NZ space communities too!
https://bsky.app/profile/cosmicrami.bsky.social/post/3l6p5klb6do2u
📌
https://bsky.app/profile/bookowl.bsky.social/post/3l4jpk37kno2r
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
https://bsky.app/profile/bmorrisallen.bsky.social/post/3l5royija252m
we sure do
https://go.bsky.app/AV7K6rY
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6gjnaw2blty4crticxkmujt/feed/my-pins
It’d be nice if we got a notification about being added to someone’s starter pack.
https://go.bsky.app/JEjvo8N
https://go.bsky.app/N8oejAE
I think. xD
no bias whaaaat so eveeeer :)
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3l4kbljbmbc2r
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3l4fakivzew2j
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3kvyvche6lr2a
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3l4a4t3gm5o2w
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3kzgawfg25g2w
https://bsky.app/starter-pack/gregpak.bsky.social/3kzfvewwrbh2n
https://bsky.app/profile/tmbg.bsky.social
https://go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
https://go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ
There is no action option to follow the list.
Also, there’s an open app button at the top that doesn’t work because I’m IN THE APP. 🤦🏼♀️
Help, @mmasnick.bsky.social ?
https://go.bsky.app/6NzhXxa
Sharing my favourite starter pack, unsurprisingly, one that I put together: paleo artists.
https://go.bsky.app/PtX8skY
Happy to see you active here. 😁
I love loading ready run, here is there starter pack
https://bsky.app/profile/stevepeers.bsky.social/post/3l6qdrkomsc26
i feel like if the in-app search function works, searching for "starter pack" should give you a good spread that you can browse through
https://bsky.app/profile/catsofyore.bsky.social/post/3l6oorxjtlv26
Have a ball!
https://bsky.app/profile/moderation.bsky.app
https://bsky.app/profile/aimod.social