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Comment by delecti | Hacker News Reader

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.

Serious question here, I use Twitter all the time but I still don't understand this. What do people mean when they say Twitter is toxic?

You seem to be advocating going to a party where the lobby is full of people yelling about something annoying, and then pushing past them to some separate room where those same people are talking about something else, for the moment.

I’d rather pick a different party.

Except there's not really "a" lobby. It's a building with equally sized entrances on the red light district, wall street, silicon valley, and capitol hill. A lot of people happen to be coming in from capitol hill at the moment, because a pretty significant event just happened. Just because you know there's an entrance to the building on capitol hill, doesn't mean that's where you're coming from when entering the party. As soon as you have an account, you never need to acknowledge that entrance again.

It just seems weirdly petulant to make a stand based on that. Even more so considering the post about Trump winning was similarly a front page post here, and that thread got more votes and comments than almost any I've ever seen here. And here there really is only one "front page".

What do you call the place where everyone has to go through to get to every other place?

The lobby.

This is a UX decision that the blue sky team made to make signing up more streamlined and its one that's very poorly thought out. Given its the same people who almade twitter it's no surprise they are making the same mistakes.

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