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Iβm still kinda wrapping my head around the feeds and all the emoji use, but itβs pretty nice over there. Iβve found some of yβall and so many accounts I used to follow on Twitter years ago. The blocking situation is great too.
To clarify (in full, for anyone else as well who may need or want it):
On Bluesky there is (almost) no algorithm. Only real place you'll find one is the Discover feed (you can click "Show me more/less of this" on each item and it generates things to show you based on your interactions). And your Following feed (which is self explanatory).
Every other feed is populated via specific keywords, hashtags, or emoji.
For the main wrestling feed:
Just saying the words without the hashtags also seems to work but ymmv. Most have taken to using the π€ΌββοΈ as the default "put this in the wrestling feed" option since its quick and faster than any of the others.
Similar things are applicable in other feeds, πΊ and π₯ put your skeet into the tv or movie feed for example, if you say "doctor who" your skeet will end up in the Doctor Who feed regardless of if you say "Doctor Who is a great show" or "I hate my doctor who tried to fuck with my prescriptions", so there can be some hits or misses lol.
As for the blocks, oh yeah 100%. The blocks on BS are nuclear. Block someone and they are gone from your life, no buts, no caveats, just gone. BS already has a bunch of idiots on it like jdfromny, cornette himself, and a bunch of shit stirrers. Tons of people have been passing around blocklists filled with these nutters and the wrestlesky community's agreed upon approach so far is: "block early and block fast", so the nutters end up getting easily segregated into their own little corner where they're cut off from the actual wrestling community as a whole.
Plus I love the sites technical details, I can hit the back button 3-4x between threads and never get that sorry-we-lost-how-far-down-the-page-you-were-so-start-at-the-top-you-stupid-bitch problem so many websites give you which I appreciate.
Thank you for all the extra info!
My experiences here, on Mastodon, and now BlueSky have been so positive with people freely offering tips and advice like this. For a long time Iβd kinda thought the internet was just shit.
And more: If you search my profile on BS (same name), i retweeted a day or two ago a thread with 5-6 blocklists for maga/trolls/musk nutters/cryptobros/scammers/NFT fuckers, and search 'wrestling blocklist' you'll find 1-3 with wrestling jackasses too
A lot of the internet sadly is shit, but we just gotta relearn the old ways to improve it again. We always had ways to find what we needed, we just got complacent with the methods that were easiest to have spoonfed to us and stopped putting in effort to find better options. Since the pandemic people have been smartening up bit by bit, and a big move like this T>BS deal goes a long way to helping that.