I got Bluesky after I stopped using twitter, and in comparison to current twitter, it is very good! However, there are still quite a few things holding Bluesky back from being as good as twitter was back in its peak. The bot prevention measures on Bluesky are quite lacking, and I get quite a lot of bots following me on a daily basis that are really obnoxious to have to block all the time. There is also no “remove follower” feature, so even if I block these bots, they still annoyingly warp my follower count and make it impossible for anyone to tell who’s actually following me! This feels like a very blatant oversight, and I really hope that the Bluesky team puts more effort into fixing the following spam problem!
Other than my issues with moderation, I do actually enjoy the ability to make custom feeds and to pin or unpin feeds from my homepage. I’ve always hated “discover” feeds, so the ability to unpin that and replace it with “popular with friends” and “art: what’s hot” has been very nice!! I use those other feeds a lot and it’s very nice to be able to have so much customization be so accessible.
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