one thing bluesky does better than any other app i’ve ever used is drive conversation. why? because it _incentivizes_ conversation. not through algorithms or through some technological trick. but because the community itself thrives off of that conversation.
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Part of me feels like it's happening now chiefly because we know what we've lost, in the Eternal December of ExTwitter.
I feel like there's more conversation on the Fediverse than here, but it's *very* fragmented
Bluesky is the centralized "town square" site
The bigger accounts still seem to dominate conversations here
A workaround to that could be create a list, add all those favorite accounts to it, and then pin the list to home to use it like a feed. You won't be notified of EVERY post, but this way is easier to keep track of what they are posting
FB went nuts when it used 👍 etc. to measure engagement. And gave🤬 anger 8 times the weight of a like. Driving engagement became fuelling anger.
No weighting algo + a hard block = (so far) tranquility.
A truly virtuous.. virtuous cycle!! 🌀
https://bsky.app/profile/skillstopractice.com/post/3latlm3cdok26