Final verdict: reposts are gonna stay off. It was an interesting experiment. It seems like folks mostly repost stuff that creates anxiety/stress/outrage. As soon as I turned them back on the vibe change was palpable.
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Erin Biba
Ok so the update is that this has been going really well. But I’m gonna turn them reposts back on so I can compare and see if the flood of stuff coming back into my timeline creates bad vibes.
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Whatever the SoMe platform, anger travels faster than joy
I do RP a lot of career-oriented shizzle, which by nature (misinformation) can be grim.
In future I think I want to RP stuff that makes me laugh, because I want it to make others laugh too 🤔
These days I’m honestly fine missing things here and there.
had that setting for a while and it seems good for the following feed
I can't be all rage, all the time. I'm too close to my 50s for that.
It's not that people repost bad things, it's that I wanna choose who appears there. When someone I don't know shows up, it feels confusing. "Who let that guy in?"
Can I ask what you mean by "switching"? between what and what? What am I missing if I just stick to OnlyPosts?
Not trying to be some wise guy; just hoping to use Bsky more skillfully.
I also like seeing replies.
I was often looking for somebody's replies and original posts to see if they were a good or bad account, which got drowned in their RTs.
So I’m going to try this also
but apparently I've had them off for a while :-)
https://bsky.app/settings/following-feed has checkboxes for them and similar options to show replies, quote posts, reposts, and Experimental.