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All remotely popular online public spaces are completely infiltrated by bots/propagandists/trolls/morons/etc. If you could successfully filter that type of content out you'd end up with a much larger pool of valid/authentic content to access than if you abandoned the space altogether and switched to some very obscure/niche space that's yet to be manipulated.

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You can already follow who you want on Twitter. The thing is, bots etc take their toll even on the good users.

Bluesky has a default feed that is just the posts/reposts of the people who you choose to follow, in reverse chronological order.

No need for an algorithm to decide what is worth seeing.

Twitter/X has the same feature. It is all I use.

Maybe, but no one worth listening to uses bluesky

Incorrect. William Gibson does. And he’s definitely worth listening to.

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