why isn't there an option that uses some kind of metric to determine comment eligibility? some things will slip through the cracks but there must be some way to predict bots or low context replies to prune at least SOME of them.
anyway, imagine getting enough replies to have to make this decision.
There are accounts I would like to interact more with, but I do not have much interest on what they repost or want to see what they post all the time on my feed. If it was possible to turn off reposts by account, and have things like timed muting or something like that, it would help.
Yeah my Spidey sense goes off if someone is following 400K people re: followbacks. There is no way juggernauts can or want to keep up with that many people, or they smack of spambots.
The people I follow either interest me (science/journos/entertainers/nerds etc.), directly converse with me, or they seem to be a good egg. I have a lot of people lately following me presumably because I repost things I find clever and hope for same, or they want my political solidarity.
I suppose what could be done is, once Feeds get the product road map improvements, you could have a reply setting so people who are in the same feed can reply to each other posts if the post is submitted/falls under it. Would fit the community "forum" function Bluesky seems to be going for with it.
bug report 👉 i sent my reply by using @atproto/api. reply count increased on root post but reply was not shown below root post. then i enabled replies and sent another reply(shown). then i disabled replies and sent one more reply. result: root post is dissappeared.
I love it! It's definitely reduced obnoxious, context-unaware replies. (I've gotten a few hostile oh-this-fancy-guy-doesn't-allow-replies quoteposts, but only a few)
You can turn off *all* quote-posts, but it might be nice to have the ability to turn off quote-posts according to the same finer-grained rules you use to turn off replies
love it! i do not have a big account so only like one or two posts per month for me would get to the point of getting weirdo replies. now i get none of that and it’s great. would love the same option for quote posts.
It's definitely helping me fill up my block list. Early identification of people who will use words like "audience" or "engagement" unironically is invaluable, and using that feature is a dead giveaway.
hasn't fixed everything, still am blocking about 5-10% of my replies every day, but considering there were days when I was up to blocking like 50% of my replies it's an improvement! the fact EVERYONE who's using it has said it's a major improvement should be a really huge warning sign.
Drive-by annoyances are just part of life on social media, but if *this many* people are saying that restricting replies to followers only is helping their experience *this* much, it means that you've got a huge product problem with inappropriate recommendations.
I don't think invite-only works great but anybody can create infinite accounts that are linked in no way to anything is not great, a lesson we should have learned 1000x already
Yeah. Well, I think the general quality of new arrivals from Twitter is subpar, in particular, but the core problem is exactly that, massive numbers of new accounts.
We extremely, desperately need to be able to get ourselves off of What's Hot and Discover at the least. The thing that made the biggest difference for me was Why fixing my account so I don't show up on Discover anymore
I would pay a significant amount a month for a product tier that let me set a "never appear on any feed other than the Following feed" flag and I am not the only one
Honestly, it seems like there should be a flag that one could set to so that, just like the “please don’t show my stuff unless the viewer is logged in” flag, one opts out of outside feeds and/or the discover feed
(Discover only seems important for folks who want to do like sciencesky but not disco)
That... feels very, very wrong. Bordering on stalking. I should have a choice in who is following me. Be able to disconnect.
Also, that gives a very false impression of the account's popularity - if I nominally have 200 followers, but 199 of them are blocked bots, I still look as if I had 200.
Blocking is the control to prevent stalking, and with the nuclear implementation here seems pretty effective.
The soft block was a side-effect of twitters internal blocking implementation, and allowed other users control over your following list. To me that feels more wrong.
Others have control of my account now - people can follow me and I cannot disconnect from them. That's just not right. If I want to follow a person, it's only fair that they have a choice to permit it or not. As it is, I am forced into unwanted connections. I hope BS will change that eventually.
The reason for this is that Bluesky works through a very open protocol that needs it to be public to work properly. None of your interactions, aside from the ones saved to your own server (ex: muting), is truly private.
Is why several safety features related to that haven't arrived yet, they basically have to build from scratch over something that was never meant to do any of that. It's a technical headache.
I love this because some weirdos disappeared from my profile. But I wish we could preset this. Each new post I’ve to select “followers only” again and again and again bruh
Oh! Only through the website version, right? I’m using the app and couldn’t find it. But thanks for the help, I really didn’t know and it saved my life 💀
What I'd REALLY like is to be able to curate my follows, like in Birdland. Sick of sifting thru a pile of 15 follows, finding out they're nearly all DNC trolls, & having to block them by hand.
I'd LOVE to be able to filter on, say, hashtags like "resist", or Blue Heart or Ukrainian Flag emojis...
I tested this feature a couple of times last summer. It didn't make a ny noticeable difference in reply volume or quality -- for me. But I think that might be due to not attracting much bot attention.
I block the obvious bots and trolls, which might account for this.
The ability to restrict replies to people following you only was released last month, so whatever you're talking about, it's not what Paul is talking about!
Better than before, but I prefer having it as users I follow, because some people will follow just to reply with anti social view points. I do find the followers only reply setting to be useful though.
highly noticeable, for the better. fewer randos explaining things to me and repetitive replies. I don’t like having to have it this way, but the Discover feed was bringing so many unwanted replies.
Sometimes it feels annoying when you would like to give proper comments on something but you can't, but in the end it is still a great feature that enables people to create their own experiences.
Don't have that active followers yet to actually test this.
If you were famous (as in lot of followers) it would magically become interesting to people, eg your post about your son yelling 'comfyness' in his sleep would suddenly be a hot topic for 10 minutes.
the level of annoying reply guys, obvious chat gpt botspam, has been negligible, its awesome.
for sustainability though I do hope we get some kind of follower vetting capabilities like mastodon has, but this is already MASSIVE, it's what I've got set on permanently
this reminds me we need to have a service where you can pay someone to set up that "bucket of water on a door so it falls on someone when they walk through it" thing to someone anywhere in the world
@pfrazee.com - IDK if you watched, but @maddow.msnbc.com adores @bsky.app but has one request (on her show last night) - please add more time to videos. She (and WE) don't think one min is enough. Mega thanks to you and the team.
wondering if down the line we'll be able to turn off reposts from individuals we follow. there are several people i want to follow but would rather not have to see the 20 items the repost per day. thanks!
Yes, would also love this feature. Getting shitty memes reskeeted into my feed gives this place "seeing my friend's drunk uncle post on Facebook" energy.
Reposts are broken, and it's a consequence of the user-centered timeline model (which also rewards high volume posters).
Like I do not really want to see the same Hot Thing 17 times, whereas I would like to see Hot Thing and an indicator that 17 people I follow all thought it was important.
if anything, i use “onlyposts” feed if i get overwhelmed by reposts. and i move frequent posters to a separate list instead of following them because they cause me to miss a lot of content. if there was an option to “mute only in ‘following’ feed”, it would be fantastic.
I don't know if this is still true, but I believe when the feature was first added they were rolling it out by region. If you aren't in the US this could be the cause? I also believe some adblockers were blocking it. It should be showing at the bottom of the right panel on web. No idea for app.
I'm not sure how feasible it is. Structurally, when you block someone, the block info is on your account. However, when someone follows you, the follow info is on their account. If you block a follower, what you do is ignore the requests for updates from the follower, but they don't have to unfollow
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This way I can spot troll bots & report them
Profiles, posts & reposts are useless
The replies are always the giveaways
anyway, imagine getting enough replies to have to make this decision.
It "feels" better overall
But... I "miss" interacting with a few people that don't follow, but engaged a lot in the past
I don't know why they just don't follow, given positive engagement, but c'est la vie, I miss them
You can create the exact experience you want, and it's awesome 🦋💙
I like to follow a lot of people, but don't do it blindly, there's legitimate value in following a lot of people if you do it right
I use your engagement options EVERY post basically
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you guys just need that time requirement option.
Twitch supplies this for chatters in your channel, it's one of their most valuable options to me.
sebsable time frames too, 3hrs, a day, 3 days, a week, month all that.
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this Helps you?
https://bsky.app/profile/twitter.rocks/post/3lj4q6f6uyc2e
(Discover only seems important for folks who want to do like sciencesky but not disco)
Removing someone from your followers should be an option.
This is technical implementation of the fundamental perspective that who you follow is your data.
The soft block only worked because Twitter let you modify other accounts
Also, that gives a very false impression of the account's popularity - if I nominally have 200 followers, but 199 of them are blocked bots, I still look as if I had 200.
The soft block was a side-effect of twitters internal blocking implementation, and allowed other users control over your following list. To me that feels more wrong.
and receive notifications from the app only for comments, I don't need to be notified every time a post is liked
if you're on the latest version this link will work too:
https://bsky.app/moderation/interaction-settings
I'd LOVE to be able to filter on, say, hashtags like "resist", or Blue Heart or Ukrainian Flag emojis...
I block the obvious bots and trolls, which might account for this.
lucky
Downside: I don’t find the people I want to block as quickly
Or provide an option to remove people on lists from the main feed, or what's even the point of lists?
Also makes it easier to read what my audience is saying and not having 80% of the comments being outsiders 🩵
1. allow scheduling posts (including threads)?
2. allow us to lock accounts?
Don't have that active followers yet to actually test this.
an option for only allowing reply posts with cat pics or from actual cats
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the level of annoying reply guys, obvious chat gpt botspam, has been negligible, its awesome.
for sustainability though I do hope we get some kind of follower vetting capabilities like mastodon has, but this is already MASSIVE, it's what I've got set on permanently
Like I do not really want to see the same Hot Thing 17 times, whereas I would like to see Hot Thing and an indicator that 17 people I follow all thought it was important.