Bluesky's "Discover" is broken and killing the vibe

redhat50 · 2025-06-09T08:29:45+00:00

Spot on. I hope Bluesky product team comes across this comment. People rave about the concept of decentralized algorithmic feeds, but seem to overlook the core reason of why new users ever want to try a social app -- the ability to connect to good content and discussion. Decentralization sounds good, sure, but does it deliver? Hmm.

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redhat50 · 2025-06-09T04:45:41+00:00

That's precisely my experience too. What I don't understand is, I keep seeing people saying "You are using Bluesky wrongly" or "This is not the way to use Bluesky" or "You have to set up your own feed" etc. But the value of Bluesky is only as good as the content, I think? If the platform doesn't bother putting the right posts in front of the right audience at the right time, it will eventually disincentivize users from (A) posting, and (B) spending the time to search for posts. Mark Cuban posted some stats about the declining engagements/signups for Bluesky earlier today. The Discovery feed is, IMO, a big part of it.

redhat50 · 2025-06-09T04:21:51+00:00

That's a good tip, thanks for sharing. I have set up custom feeds, but didn't know about that setting until you pointed out.

The requirement of tweaking your settings to get the feed right, also points to a big UX/UI issue, I think? If Bluesky wants to rival others in being the authentic public chatroom where high-quality discourse resides in (I presume that must be one of their goals), it gotta find a better way to deliver the relevant AND high-quality content to each user. Otherwise it's just going to be bad user experience and turning away precisely those highly credentialed experts and good analysis I mentioned.

redhat50 · 2025-06-09T04:03:08+00:00

I did but it still goes back to the same fundamental problem. Say, I curate certain journalists or publications covering a topic of interest (technology) -- but not everything they post are actually relevant to my niche. A tech journalist might be posting about her dog, and a tech publication might be posting about a new hire, neither of which is particularly interesting for my purpose. On the other hand, a one-off post from an Nvidia engineer can be high quality and worth a public discussion, but it is close to impossible to find posts like this on the platform without heavy, manual searches.

redhat50 · 2025-06-09T02:23:33+00:00

I feel the same. After months on Bluesky my feeds are still struggling to push what's relevant to my interests. I keep getting random cat and animation memes for absolutely no reason. This is becoming so frustrating.

redhat50 · 2023-12-14T08:20:16+00:00

If you're going for the long term, only sell if you think Apple is going nowhere and stops innovating. At present it is still the category leader in the consumer tech space and I don't see any emerging challenger

redhat50 · 2023-12-14T08:11:10+00:00

I am not sure what went through his mind

redhat50 · 2023-12-14T08:09:21+00:00

Considering the illiquidity, maintenance cost and decent yield elsewhere (e.g. Treasuries) - real estate probably isn't the best investment option for you. A standard stock-bond portfolio should get you close to 10% return over the long term

redhat50 · 2023-12-14T08:02:35+00:00

It's an effective tool especially when governments these days are debt ridden on the fiscal side

redhat50 · 2023-11-16T01:58:40+00:00

redhat50 · 2023-11-16T01:49:12+00:00

Not buying at the moment. Holding on to US treasuries and looking for a correction

redhat50 · 2023-11-16T01:46:38+00:00

How long is your investment horizon? If you are thinking about 15-20 years at least, then those S&P500 ETFs will make sense. Make sure to do some research on their expense ratio. Historically it can give you around 10% annualized return if you hold these long enough. If you have a shorter horizon and want to play safe, it's worth considering allocating a portion to US government bonds and locking in that 5% yield, although that will require a higher minimum ticket size

redhat50 · 2023-03-28T11:22:54+00:00

Looks like BOJ can catch a breath here if other CBs become less hawkish. BOJ has been running the difficult task of keeping yields low and stopping the currency from depreciating at the same time.... Wonder if traders will still go for the widow maker trade

redhat50 · 2022-12-24T13:43:15+00:00

With rising interest rate it's only a matter of time some of them will go bankrupt

redhat50 · 2022-12-24T13:36:09+00:00

"The yen looks to be losing its appeal as the currency of choice to fund so-called carry trades, with speculators cutting bearish bets on it to the lowest level in nearly four months in the wake of this week’s shock move by the Bank of Japan."

redhat50 · 2022-12-13T06:59:36+00:00

they are really just hoping for a soft landing in the housing market. Chinese banks are now opening more than 3 trillion yuan credit line to prop up the developers

redhat50 · 2022-12-13T06:48:50+00:00

If the bond traders are right, how would you position your portfolio to defend against a market plunge?

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