Matt BlazeMy decision about whether to try Bluesky depends on what everyone else does. I just want to be where everyone else is, and not be around too many Nazis. My needs are simple.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m https://bsky.app/profile/mattblaze.bsky.social on Bluesky. We’ll see.
I have no idea whether I’ll stick around there. I don’t want a zillion different accounts to check all the time, so whatever ends up feeling like home is probably where I’ll stay.
There’s a lot I like about this place and the fediverse concept, but frankly, I still feel like a slightly unwelcome guest here six months in. Who knows.
Bjorn Toft Madsen@mattblaze for me it gets better and better as I follow more interesting people & #hashtags. The first couple of months it felt like a desert … my trick to unlock the value was looking at people I followed initially and seeing who they followed. Now my graph feels fairly rich - too many posts actually and I am starting to think if client-side filtering is the answer to produce a snackable timeline where I can keep up.
Sami Seppo@BjornToftMadsen @mattblaze #Hashtags following – as a powerful common sense feature – should be better promoted on fediverse microblogging platforms. Hopefully progress will happen with that. 👍
@BjornToftMadsen @mattblaze It's weird that I can't even see what tags I follow, without typing them on search box and checking each by each.
@samiseppo @mattblaze yeah, #hashtags are so much more valuable as a way to build an interesting timeline. In fact it’s the only way to create a sense of “#curation” but #mastodon clients still treat them like the also-rans they were on late-stage Twitter.
@BjornToftMadsen @[email protected] #Curation by #hashtags following caresses one's curiosity and filtering interesting issues from feeds.
It's a shame if #Mastodon apps tend to ignore such power-feature.
Then again tag-following to an extend does tax the amount of following one might otherwise hurry to collect.
But in the longer sight it keeps one's feed more interesting and also suitable surprising when one's #echoChamber is less whole and not that solidly stable.