Yes! Follow people! Don’t wait for A NEFARIOUS ALGORITHM to present them to you. There are all those starter packs to get started, or — the old fashioned way — follow someone you know and then look at who they follow and pick some of them, and then follow some of the people THEY follow. Easy! - ThreadSky

scalzi.com • 146 days ago

Yes! Follow people! Don’t wait for A NEFARIOUS ALGORITHM to present them to you. There are all those starter packs to get started, or — the old fashioned way — follow someone you know and then look at who they follow and pick some of them, and then follow some of the people THEY follow. Easy!

Reposted from Faine Greenwood

Hey new Bluesky users: this website has no centralized algorithm.

If you think it seems dead in here, it's absolutely not.

However, you are going to have to follow more people than you did on Twitter to see a lot of action in your Home feed.

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skleinedler.bsky.social•146 days ago

for one brief second I thought A NEFARIOUS ALGORITHM was going to be the title of your next novel

sabineosman.bsky.social•146 days ago

That would be a great title, tbh.

marketdoctor.bsky.social•146 days ago

"We thought we had a zero, but in the end, we won."

emnelson.bsky.social•146 days ago

Will all due respect to Scalzi ( & that is a lot of respect) my first thought was that A NEFARIOUS ALGORITHM was a title from Charlie Stross’ Laundry series, or maybe a short story prequel to it.

dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social•146 days ago

Whoa.

jacknifejouster.bsky.social•146 days ago

youll have to spell it out for me, where are the starter packs?

sheilabjeletich.bsky.social•145 days ago

I love the Starter Packs. The nature people, sigh sigh. The Bike groups. It's wonderful.

lurks-no-more.bsky.social•146 days ago

Death to the Algorithm, and all it stands for!

somedumbguy.bsky.social•146 days ago

In the end there will be two groups of people on Bluesky. Those people that remember the time that turtle broke out of its habitat and ended up across town having sex with another turtle and those that don’t.

countcassius.bsky.social•146 days ago

That’s the thing that I love about this app is that once you go through something on your feed it clears it. If you wanna see more you HAVE to follow them
Or it’s recommended at the very least.
Twitter has such bad culture for just seeing the post but never engaging, but BlueSky encourages support

wwaltuhh.bsky.social•146 days ago

Come outside.

orpach.bsky.social•145 days ago

That gets me thinking, I'd probably check in on a "nefarious algorithm" feed from time to time if it existed.

Just the most horrible posts, engagement bait, and rage inducing brain poison. As close to the default twitter "for you" tab as is possible on this site.

Not for good reasons, mind you.

nerummi.bsky.social•146 days ago

Yessirr

dbressler.bsky.social•146 days ago

Okay, dumb question. How do I find the starter packs? When I look in settings it just wants me to make my own, so unless I stumble across someone posting about theirs I have no idea how to search for them.

kevinmarks.com•146 days ago

If you search for "starter pack" you see people's posts about them

natanael.bsky.social•146 days ago

They're in other people's profiles, if they've made some

pndrp.bsky.social•146 days ago

Sounds like work to me.

msolomonchik.bsky.social•146 days ago

I like the manual following. It’s good and also presents me with who I like and new by association peeps quickly.

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