Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'
Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'
Not everyone is happy about it being the default.
Not everyone is happy about it being the default.
"Engagement bait" is now the default option. Monetization is the next step.
"Engagement bait" is also the default option on Lemmy, Mbin, etc.
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.
X: Old and Busted
BlueSky: New Hotness
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.
Cringe af
Any% enshitification speed run GO!
So...like Lemmy?
No? Mine defaults to "newest"
I think it can be configured and it depends on the client to allow it or not.
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.
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.
The fuck??? I like posts all the time, followed 8 people, and have a few posts.....I have 3 followers.
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.
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.
If you think they're bots, you can just subscribe to a user-curated block list for bot accounts.
Has nothing to do with attractiveness. It's the same "hot" vs "new" etc as any other sort
Funny thing, I had already set my preference to "newest first" and the change was respected after they implemented the new setting.
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...
Everything can be a dating app /s
(this is sadly true)
And the best is still linkedin. Nowhere else do you get desperate woman insisting they want to talk with you.
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...
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?
The fact they make this the default is the issue... The first babysteps to enshitification has now begun.
This, should have made the previous setting the default one
It's the default for most of Lemmy too.
The heck does that even mean
My guess is timeframe vs active interactions of posts. Like a short term popularity metric? Lemmy has it as a sort option.
They can rank replies any way they want.
they can indeed, i simply do not understand what that would actually entail
To be fair having replies in order of time sucks.
I prefer how X orders them based on how much money you give to Elon Musk