Not everyone is happy about it being the default.

  • Chozo
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    843 months ago

    “Engagement bait” is now the default option. Monetization is the next step.

    • Aatube
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      413 months ago

      “Engagement bait” is also the default option on Lemmy, Mbin, etc.

      • Chozo
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        123 months ago

        Not sure about Lemmy, but the default option on Mbin is “Hot”, which is just chronological order with boosted comments pushed to the top. Boosting is basically just the microblog way of retweeting, and I believe will add an extra point to the score on the Mbin side.

        Could be a bit confusing, since Mbin’s definition of “hot” is 95% chronological, but Bluesky’s definition has more to do with reply/like ratios.

        • Aatube
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          63 months ago

          I haven’t dived into the source code yet, but while it does seem to weight newness more than e.g. Reddit, it still feels much less than 95% and it’s all based on the same principle that upvotes should also determine a bit of what you see. Keep in mind hotness is different from top, an option that Bluesky also has. (I also haven’t been able to find which option Bluesky previously defaulted to.)

        • Aatube
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          13 months ago

          That’s for posts, not comments, which is what Bluesky changed.

            • Aatube
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              13 months ago

              Yeah, by “posts” I meant posts to Lemmy/threads on the home feed. By “comments” I mean the discussion area for each thread.

    • Aatube
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      83 months ago

      I guess I get why 𝕏 changed their short description on the app store to “🔥Blaze your glory” for a while a year ago now.

  • Novamdomum
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    233 months ago

    So I joined Bluesky over a year ago and have only ever posted a single message “Hi”. I’ve also not liked or commented on any posts. Somehow (especially recently) I am getting followed more and more. I have over a hundred followers now. I’m guessing bots? It’s the sudden recent surge over the last couple of months that’s interesting.

    • edric
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      83 months ago

      My wife is on bluesky and she was telling me yesterday she has had a surge of random followers as well, most likely bots. What she was annoyed about is the block feature doesn’t get them to unfollow you or something. And a portion of the bots are porn repost bots.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      73 months ago

      The fuck??? I like posts all the time, followed 8 people, and have a few posts…I have 3 followers.

    • @devfuuu
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      33 months ago

      You know, they need to make it appear alive and that there are interactions and users so the value raises and people are engaged.

      It’s how you make money as a company. For everyone else, mastodon.

      • @[email protected]
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        03 months ago

        Everyone else what? Everyone else that enjoys smooching of free labor? Lol I like Mastodon but this is just a stupid reason to use it.

    • @Tattorack
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      13 months ago

      If you think they’re bots, you can just subscribe to a user-curated block list for bot accounts.

  • @200ok
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    193 months ago

    Has nothing to do with attractiveness. It’s the same “hot” vs “new” etc as any other sort

  • @Godnroc
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    113 months ago

    Funny thing, I had already set my preference to “newest first” and the change was respected after they implemented the new setting.

  • @latenightnoir
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    63 months ago

    I really shouldn’t read the news 10 minutes after waking up, my brain was sure this meant that Bluesky was turning into a dating app…

    • TJA!
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      3 months ago

      Everything can be a dating app /s

      (this is sadly true)

      • @devfuuu
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        33 months ago

        And the best is still linkedin. Nowhere else do you get desperate woman insisting they want to talk with you.

      • @latenightnoir
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        03 months ago

        Hey, as long as they don’t gamify and manipulate things like MatchGroup do with their entire ecosystem, any app would be a better dating app than the dedicated ones…

      • @latenightnoir
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        I have a hawt date with my bed, because I’m old and tired ;) :)))

  • @Alpha71
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    43 months ago

    Post reply settings also include sorting by oldest or newest replies, most liked, or a random setting labelled “Poster’s roulette”.

    Sooo… You can change the setting.

    And?

  • @BMTea
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    -123 months ago

    To be fair having replies in order of time sucks.

    • mesamune
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      403 months ago

      It would be best to let the users to choose their own preference.

          • @TheGrandNagus
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            23 months ago

            Yes. And furthermore, if you’ve changed the setting in the past, this new default sort change doesn’t override it.

      • @BMTea
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        33 months ago

        You can though I like it.

    • @fluxion
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      163 months ago

      I prefer how X orders them based on how much money you give to Elon Musk

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Weird you’re being voted down.

      Who wants the terminally online to be the first five replies to every post? It should sort by op like/boost by default at least

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Me. I do. It’s better than the hive mind upvoting some stupid meme reply or some bullshit/misinformation.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          So you only see misinformation if professional disinformation employees are paid to reply instantly, which, they are.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            I’m not seeing too many professional disinformation employees in here but sure that’s a thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      Why do you think that sucks? Chronological order makes everything easier to use and navigate

      • @BMTea
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        43 months ago

        It biases the first repliers

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Depends on whether it’s first-on-top or last-on-top…hot/popular biases engagement in obscure ways we can’t see through, which often (always?) ends up favouring trolls and rage-bait.