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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)
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[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does have keyword blocking.

Not sure what nuclear block means but I can't think of any way a blocked person could be seen again. It even has above nuclear blocking where you block their entire server.

It has custom feeds but the implementation with lists is very fiddly and I wish it would be improved.

There is a trending posts section but I think you want a personalised discover feed? Which will never happen of course.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

Keyword blocking is a bit more sophisticated on Bluesky I think as they have a crowdsourced tagging system which allows you to opt in an out also of tagged words regardless of whether they appear in the body of the post.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The tagging sounds great. One of the problems with masto is showing the hashtags in the body making posts that use them look awful, and of course being entirely set by the author

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah it makes it look like a 4chan post.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm,, just who you follow.

The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don't know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.

One problem. People don't use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.

[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been watching @TechConnectify 's latest?! He has some interesting stats on the subscriptions feed on YT in there - and yes, it's shockingly low.
I think people want plug and play. Maintaining subs isn't work as such after you've set it up, but it does take that initial setup. https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Been watching @TechConnectify 's latest?!

Yes. Yes I have.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I use them. I use platforms more that have them. I leave platforms that don't.

But to each their own I guess.