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Ask HN: Have you managed to switch to Bluesky for tech people?

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I'm currently using a lot X to follow technical people in my ecosystem (Web development, Typescript / Python, AI, ...). But it sucks that belongs to Elon Musk and my feed is constantly poluted by clickbait posts nowadays.

I tried to signup to Bluesky, but there are not a lot of my favorite tech personalities, and some of them are not really posting anything.

Is that the same for you? How do you manage that? Is there a way out of X someday?

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I tried using Bluesky and then ended up going back to X and blocking a lot of people. Both platforms seem to have some extremely political folks when I really just want to follow tech and business news.

What is a "tech personality" and why do I need to read their posts?

They usually have interesting opinions or news about what they build, I find it quite useful for monitoring my ecosystem and learning new stuff.

Your ecosystem? What do you mean? I'm genuinly curious. :O

Good question. It’s a human who posts tech opinions on the internet. Recently I met one named bigyabai - ironically a rather small tech personality, but one nonetheless.

Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through cache? If you’re not there for discourse, you just need to retrieve the published content.

Not issue for me because I'm not into AI/Typescript/web that much. In my case it was easy. Rust people are on Fediverse/Mastodon and Bsky. You don't even need to have account in those places. They are accessible from open internet.

I still havent completely managed to go to Bluesky - still need to be on X.

I had high hopes for Bluesky and I made an account because a lot of people I wanted to follow from Twitter wound up there instead of the Fediverse.

The only reason I'm even still on Twitter is so bots don't take my username (not that it matters, it isn't that valuable, but I've had it since 2009 and they can take it from my cold dead hands) and following a couple of Japanese accounts (mostly Aya Nishitani, creator of the Shin Megami Tensei series.)

I dropped all of my follows and comments and now I get the raw unfiltered feed and JFC is it a cesspool.

I'm only really active on Mastodon now, however.

It's really, really easy to not use X. Just don't visit it, it's a dumpster fire and if you get too close the fumes will make you stupid.

I don't care about "tech personalities", but most of the IT people whose ideas I'm interested in either have RSS feeds or Mastodon accounts, or both.

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