7 ms·
Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings
I’ve curated and organized Bluesky feeds into 50+ categories, now with growth rankings for the past day and week! Check it out and share your thoughts!
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- know-how 2y ago[dead]
- stackghost 2y agoVery confusing. I wanted to see if there were any infosec feeds (none appeared on the top 30 trending feeds list) so I clicked the hamburger menu at the top left, went to categories and went to security and privacy. It was all random tools and plugins, so I went back to "Feed Directory" which appears to only be a top 30 trending list. So it's seemingly misleadingly named. Edit: there's another hamburger menu, about 75% down the viewport that has some other stuff in it, idk. Pretty confusing UX
- laimingj 2y agoThank you so much for your feedback! If you're browsing on a mobile device, please use the menu button at the bottom left to expand the category navigation. The category option at the top left currently serves as a navigation tool for Bluesky. We’re actively working to improve this experience.
- MattSayar 2y agoI know it's a minority opinion with this crowd, but sports has such a large presence on X and I don't know why it's lagging moving to BlueSky. I like the categories on this site but "sports" doesn't even make the cut while "eSports" does.
- stackghost 2y agoThere was a thread on Reddit recently about how NFL corporate has demanded teams delete their BSky accounts, because of a contractual relationship with X.
- threeseed 2y agoWill be interesting to see how that fairs with /r/nfl banning links to X.
- huhkerrf 2y agoI doubt the NFL is worrying too much. Reddit activism rarely (never?) moves the needle. If anything, it will push more people to X to get NFL news.
- MattSayar 2y agoWell that's highly disappointing
- wsatb 2y agoI don't think it's a contractual agreement with X. The NFL has lots of weird rules, apparently one of them is teams can only create accounts at "approved" social media sites. Probably only a matter of time before it's "approved".
- laimingj 2y agoThank you for your feedback! We’re working on improving the category system and appreciate your input.
- mhh__ 2y agoIn Britain at least I find that Bluesky is mainly populated by the kind of people who really want you to know that they don't like football
- aloisdg 2y ago
- gotoeleven 2y agoI discovered that BlueSky has a feed called "Marking Her Territory" which is for pictures of ladies peeing on things.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoVery cool. It makes it easy for me to check out feeds quickly (and then possibly add them). (Looking for ArtNoAnime but having no luck, ha ha.)
- thijser 2y agoThe site is unreachable for me? Great to see so many good analytics tools pop up for bsky, I'm also working on one that primarily focuses on the fastest growing user accounts if you're interested: https://blue.facts.dev/trending https://blue.facts.dev/trending
- liontwist 2y agoWhat happened to mastodon? We don’t just want to move from one walled garden to another.
- wsatb 2y agoQuite frankly, it lacks marketing.
- Timwi 2y agoAmen! That was my first thought as well when I saw this.
- kstrauser 2y agoWe’re still here, and my timeline is still packed with awesome people I love talking to.
- WA 2y agoI think Mastodon will have its place, but won’t grow much. BlueSky will grow more instead of Mastodon. Reasons: - BlueSky is mostly centralized and easier to understand. No server choice stuff - BlueSky has the better name - BlueSky has the cleaner UI
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoI want to disagree with the first two of those: > BlueSky is mostly centralized and easier to understand. No server choice stuff It's not supposed to be this way even though it is right now. They're intending for it to be actually fully federated. But the "server choice" stuff is a bug in the existing design of Mastodon anyway. It shouldn't matter which server you pick because you should be able to change it at any time seamlessly, e.g. by uploading a copy of your posts to any other server, where your posts are backed up to your local device by default. So then the question is, does Bluesky repeat the error when they get around to it, or does Mastodon fix it with an update, or both or neither? But it's not inherently an advantage for Bluesky, unless they get it right and Mastodon doesn't fix it. > BlueSky has the better name The old thing was called Twitter, which is the same kind of parody of itself as Mastodon. Now it's called X, which is somehow even more of a parody of itself. It turns out having a silly name doesn't stop people from using it.
- brianbest101 2y ago[dead]
- ipaddr 2y agoI went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more thoughtful if not humor full. I went to threads and they had a variety of posts in different languages. Top link: Tiktok style guy from Japan who does wall pushups. A newspaper cartoon and netflicks infograph follow. I'm not sure why we are not all on Mastodon it's similiar content to this site. Bluesky is getting so much hype but the frontpage content is a tarpool of vile content like someone trained an ai on salon.com and decided to spit out the worst nonsense.
- tpm 2y ago> I'm not sure why we are not all on Mastodon it's similiar content to this site. Mastodon is a nonprofit and a federated network with no single powerful entity marketing and managing it. It does not have enough pull.
- openrisk 2y agoThis can quickly change if the public sector ever wakes up and smells the coffee. Imagine if every city would run activitypub type servers and offer them to their own residents as local tax funded service. Its an entirely plausible scenario, cities are managing far more complex infrastructure. Suddenly you have the pull of the entire planet and resources to keep evolving and innovating the software stack. We have the cesspool social media that we have because society is forgeting what democracy and sovereignty even mean. One just hopes that the in-your-face possibility of better alternatives will tip the balance somewhere in the world and start the revolution that will help us out of this sorry period.
- briandear 2y agoSo would the city government allow criticism of government officials? I specifically don’t want the government running anything like that.
- williamjinq 2y agoA well-designed directory site! Saw my Bluesky scheduler (https://skyblaze.app/ https://skyblaze.app/) on it :) Thanks!
- laimingj 2y agoThank's for your support
- anileated 2y agoIf weird sun twitter was on Bluesky, in which category would it go?
- pjc50 2y ago"weird sun twitter"?
- jslakro 2y agoAm I the only one who reads Bansky when sees bsky?
- riffraff 2y agono, I'm with you
- ykonstant 2y agoI just always read it Bansky at this point.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agobusky would seem to be the most reasonable pronunciation.
- arccy 2y agoThe perfect web comic for this: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/meme-girls/bansky/viewer?title_no=304446&episode_no=322 https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/meme-girls/bansky/viewer?...
- petesergeant 2y agoI don't get it, could you explain it?
- ozmodiar 2y agoIf there's one thing I don't think you get banned for on Bluesky it's porn so that comic made zero sense.
- notahacker 2y agoThere's a part of me that still sees it as BSkyB, the old corporate name for the UK's largest satellite television network
- ykonstant 2y agoI took the bite and made an account on Bluesky, my first time on such social media. Very disappointing thus far: I have been pestered and followed by bots and no amount of blocking does anything. I am trying to curate my feeds with mutes, blocks and "I want to see less of this" to cultivate an art/science/nature/programming feed, and the app keeps shoving politics and rage bait down my throat. Custom and Following feeds help, but I want to... "Discover" new people, not lock myself into a pre-prunned garden. In particular, the above list is ok for avoiding the awful slop, but the devs need to be much more aggressive (if they have the will, of course) about understanding and respecting user choices.
- makeset 2y agoI signed up, typed "c++" in the search bar, and the results were... gay porn. I might reinstall and try again when the Rust lobby chills out.
- teamonkey 2y agoYou need to follow people, not block. Unlike Facebook or X there is no strong algorithm (although feeds are technically custom algorithms, but they're mainly lists of people or posts that contain certain keywords) but once you follow enough people, you pretty much only see their content, more-or-less in order. If you don't follow enough people, your feed is filled with whatever's trending at that moment. Blocking when you don't follow anyone will not train an algorithm, it will just replace that person's content with something else.
- cma 2y agoThere are also curated "booster packs" with one click following of everyone in a category (type of artist, industry, etc.)
- TheFreim 2y agoThe booster packs, at least the ones I've found, don't help at all. I followed a handful of tech-related booster packs and more than 50% of the posts are merely political at best, rage bait at worst. I'm going to have to find a way to unfolloe everything or just not use the site.
- vekker 2y agoHonestly, it just highlights how little traction Bluesky has. We tried it within our company's niche, but it's like a desert. Feeds that rarely get updated. 0 engagement. What's the point? Whatever you may think of the management, X does the job (and arguably better than before). You can just filter out the stuff you'd rather not see on your feed. Also, I second the other commenter's mention of the lack of sports on BlueSky. That's a pretty large category not to have...
- jaimex2 2y ago[flagged]
- coldcode 2y agoSadly programming topics have not gotten much traction on BlueSky. You don't even have a real category for it (just generic Technology) as it's not all that popular. Most the programming related feeds are majority zero engagement.
- mpalmer 2y agoYeah... Reddit's still the MVP here. But tbh I'd take the ghost town of BlueSky over what passes for programming discourse on X. Long since taken over by video producers and tech bros pushing their "grindset"
- pjc50 2y agoMany tech people left Twitter for Mastodon before Bluesky took off. Some also left for cohost, but unfortunately that has just closed down due to lack of funds. I'm currently on bluesky, but that also has the "no sustainable funding" serious bug. Also it's a frankly miserable place until US election misery dies down, which may take a while.
- velcrovan 2y agoIt's a feedback loop as well; I refrain from saying anything too nerdy on BlueSky because it feels “off-topic”.
- laimingj 2y agowe add a category for programming, check it out here: https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/software-development/ https://www.bskyinfo.com/feeds/software-development/
- Saris 2y agoMastodon probably has a lot more of that, at least it feels like it.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- laimingj 2y agoThanks everyone for your feedback! We’ve listened to your suggestions and, after one day of launch, we’ve improved the category system. There are now 28 main categories with around 160 subcategories, and we’ve also added a search function, so you can now search by keywords.
- Terretta 2y ago"Real Housewives" from Bravo television is in Science & Technology. And while college is academia, I'm not sure "College Football" is expected in "Research & Academia". How was this "curated"?