Bluesky Social 17+

This app is an alternative to X/Twitter. It has a lot of the same features as X/Twitter with some minor differences. Mainly you can only post videos that are 60 seconds long. Anything longer you have to comment and add the rest. The block function actually blocks the user from seeing your posts. However, the algorithm on this app is not as fine tuned as X/Twitter. It needs some work. But many users on this app are friendly. You don’t have to worry so much about people just being mean to you just cuz you said something that seemed dumb to them. If you are nice, they will be nice. Don’t respond aggressively and you won’t have a problem. Keep in mind though that many users recently joined from X/Twitter. Many are still sore about their experiences there. You may come across users that are venting a lot about it or still have an account and are posting stuff that they see over there that is irking them. Just try to ignore it if you don’t like it. The Bluesky team is also struggling to keep up with Bluesky massive growth due to the X/Twitter exodus so try to be patient with them. The growth was unexpected and sudden for them.

Downloaded the app a bit ago after the recent changes to twitter and honestly it’s safe to say bluesky is a lot better. No ragebait or drama and everyone’s friendly with eachother. You don’t get bullied for just existing and people actually interact with your posts. The feed is full of wonderful artists and talented people too instead of just being based off who’s the most popular on the app. However Im not a fan of how difficult it is to make your feed match your tastes, even just a little bit. I know you can pin separate feeds to scroll through to see medias you enjoy but they’re often stale, and only show posts that include certain words which causes a lot of posts to go unseen due to not having those keywords.

For example— I follow multiple jjba feeds and post almost exclusively about jjba, and most if not all of my mutuals post about it as well. yet in my time on the app ive only gotten two jjba related posts on my feed and neither of them involved any possible keywords. I understand the main feed is meant to be for discovering new people and making friends and whatnot, but I’d like to enjoy meeting new people who are from MY fandoms without having to join 20 different feed groups in order to meet them. It’s unfair that my feed is full of stuff like super mario and guilty gear but nothing that I actually enjoy. This is an issue for hundreds of people, please don’t ignore our complaints about this.

I downloaded Bluesky a week or two ago, to join some friends that had begun using the app, and I must say, at base value, Bluesky is a functional app, that could absolutely some day serve as plenty of people’s main form of social media (though bookmarks and post drafts are a must for the future). That said, currently, the app’s algorithm fails in huge ways that X’s doesn’t. My feed on Bluesky, no matter what I try, is flooded with posts that don’t interest me whatsoever, and even more frequently, with posts that I actively am seeking to AVOID. For example, SO many posts on Bluesky are people talking up the app, and claiming that it is infinitely better than X. Frankly, I have no skin in that race, but it’s really hard to genuinely believe that Bluesky is superior, when HALF of my Bluesky feed is posts trying to prove that X is bad, meanwhile my X feed is still only content that I actually enjoy and care about. There is a “Show me less content like this” button on Bluesky, but I have clicked it, probably over 100 times at this point, and it has simply done nothing to help curate my feed. I plan to try to stick it out with Bluesky, but for now I will be using X much more. If Bluesky ever wants to get out of X’s shadow, it needs to ditch the little brother energy, and simply be a better app, but currently I unfortunately cannot say that it is.