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Nevertheless, as Bluesky grows, there are likely to be multiple professionally-run indexers for various purposes. For example, a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network index that provides insights to their clients.
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Is that supposed to be a selling point? Because I'd like to stay far, far away from that, thank you very much.
No thank you.
Why? What's so bad about blue sky that you don't like?
It's algorithmic and run by venture capital. 2 things that made social media the toxic mess it is today.
The algorithms/feeds are easily the best part about Bluesky because they can be custom-made. If you don't like the feeds provided by Bluesky, you can just make one of your own that displays what you want to see. I use many such feeds.
If that's what you like, use it. Nobody is telling you can't. Those that prefer non-algorithmic vs algorithmic social media will always be in disagreement, since they are fundamentally opposite of each other.
If you want your timeline to be just a chronological timeline, you can also subscribe to that feed and delete all others. Bluesky isn't Threads, no one is forcing any algorithm on you that you don't want, this is part of the decentralized nature of Bluesky.
Also, I don't think there is a clear line between "algorithmic" and "non-algorithmic" social media. If you use Mastodon with the Mammoth app and its "For You" feed, is it algorithmic or non-algorithmic? If I sort my Lemmy timeline by "hot", do I not use an algorithm?
I have a custom bluesky feed right now: absolutely nothing. It's awesome
Nice! I've been enjoying the "Quiet Posters" feed, which shows only posts by people I follow that don't regularly post, so I might miss the rare times that they do! :)
Probably because it's not linux, foss or any of that shit
When I see people criticize something they have clearly not used I get motivated to try it.
I hope someone makes a way to bridge activity pub and @protocol