Bluesky Social

I’d give zero stars if I could. The block feature is useless. It still allows the person to follow you. They just can’t see your posts. Lame. Way too many bots.

Glad for a Twitter alternative- thank you!. The app is fairly functional and easy to use. I’ve had my account for over six months but didn’t use it much until the last six weeks or so when I finally deleted my Twitter acct. There are increasingly more and more bots/fake accounts following me- other than blocking there, doesn’t seem to be a way to remove them as followers all together. The other main issue I have is my feed doesn’t seem to refresh. I follow over 100 accounts, most being public figures who are generally pretty prolific on social media, however when I return to the app after, three or four hours, there are usually only a half a dozen new posts displayed, then the rest of my feed is the content I was looking at hours ago.

cool concept. immediately followed by 10+ bots after creating an account. deactivated & deleted.

It keeps growing closer to par "the competitor app"! It come a few issues however: 1- Pictures are low quality in the app, especially if they have any small details or text, making it snooping at best and frustrating at worst; if you download the image into your phone it looks alright, but it's too many extra steps when it could be zero. — 2, NEEDS a "bookmark" feature, so many people have made their own makeshift version for it; but it's nothing compared to an app feature.

You make the algorithm. You set your user experience. So much easier to escape bot and troll nets than X. Platform is run by a company dedicated to social media for the good of regular people, not just the billionaire owners.

I’m giving this app a 1 star due to the fact that there is so many bots and the devs haven’t dealt with the bots yet if I keep getting bots follows I’ll be deleting my account and never coming back

idk how this already isn’t a feature.

I got Bluesky after I stopped using twitter, and in comparison to current twitter, it is very good! However, there are still quite a few things holding Bluesky back from being as good as twitter was back in its peak. The bot prevention measures on Bluesky are quite lacking, and I get quite a lot of bots following me on a daily basis that are really obnoxious to have to block all the time. There is also no “remove follower” feature, so even if I block these bots, they still annoyingly warp my follower count and make it impossible for anyone to tell who’s actually following me! This feels like a very blatant oversight, and I really hope that the Bluesky team puts more effort into fixing the following spam problem! Other than my issues with moderation, I do actually enjoy the ability to make custom feeds and to pin or unpin feeds from my homepage. I’ve always hated “discover” feeds, so the ability to unpin that and replace it with “popular with friends” and “art: what’s hot” has been very nice!! I use those other feeds a lot and it’s very nice to be able to have so much customization be so accessible.

I downloaded this as an alternative to the Twitter/X platform in hopes I could follow sports teams but every time I checked it, there were new strangers following my account. I don’t care about networking with bots and strangers, so I deleted the account and the app. if they ever improve privacy and allow me to not be followed by 100 bots in 12 hours maybe I’ll reopen an account. There is absolutely no privacy setting to stop the bots and strangers following you.

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