I try using bluesky's feeds but they feel very cumbersome, mostly because they have to be broad.

Example: there are pixel art feeds, however they do not capture the vibe I like a lot of the time because they are designed to capture all of them. It is okay for broad content consumption ig. However, twitter's algorithm felt better for that, as that did get me the vibe I wanted as I used the site, though it gave me dumb shit too.

So far genuine interaction has been the only good method, as that typically gets me to users who share the vibe I want. However, that takes time.

@epsi I guess at that point its you as a human curating the feed vs a machine. It does make sense doing it yourself is easier to get the outcome you want.

@epsi Google Plus was peak. Every other social media keeps trying and failing.

@GNUxeava google plus over activitypub, when?

@epsi i am trying

@GNUxeava waowaowaow good luck!!

@epsi Honestly I only use Discover and the Bluesky Team ones for app updates

All the custom feeds are just too much noise

@eris discover has been meh for me, it still is primarily random stuff

the feeds I follow are good for content consumption basically, which is like... not entirely why I am there

@epsi jokes apart, the interaction felt pretty natural.

All your followings could be categorised into circles where a circle was simply a set. You could follow a person into multiple circles so you could plan a dinner with your family circle and your meeting agenda with work circle. None of them would see your other post because they are in mutually exclusive sets. You should goof around and be serious, all in the same profile.

Posts could be categorised into collections so you could follow a collection instead of the person. Say you are not into the person's political ideas but his cat is super adorable. Follow his cat collection and your feed would only fetch his cat posts

Then there was subreddit style communities where you could join (or not) and engage with people with similar tastes

The integration with hangouts was also good. DMs, group chats and video calls were part of G+ ecosystem.

All your posts containing images would also get saved to google photos.

But google being google, they fucked up every aspect of the social network and killed it.

Twitter is a bad joke, facebook is facebook. Reddit should just die (or not, they need to be contained). I could go on but what is the point of talking about a dead service with no alternative?

@GNUxeava sad... I had a google+ account but never really used it cause no one I knew was on it :<

it sounds really good though...

@epsi have you tried doing the "show me less/more like this" in Discover?

@eris didn't even know that was a thing

I will try it, maybe then I will get less american news posts in that feed

@epsi it had some really cool people. I got into android modding precisely because of that

@GNUxeava rad...

@epsi yeah ya gotta curate it to what you want

@eris that makes more sense

discover seems less of a weird ass tab now

@eris
>clicks show me less on some us politics stuff
>refreshes and gets hit with hairy man chest

curation is a long road, I see
but I will put in the effort

@epsi be grateful, in the olden days of Bluesky it was someone's butthole and furry porn you'd have to see on the old discover feed

@eris I do remember full on penis on my feeds sometimes, that didn't last too long thankfully

I still have no idea why they thought they could just run with their auto-detecting filter and not give people the ability to manually add CWs...