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I think it’s well-established that mere amplification of post engagement is sufficient to drive extremism, because it’s the highly emotional posts that get shared and liked. I really REALLY like the idea of not prioritizing posts in any way that would produce positive feedback loops.

I would still love to have "like" mean something ... maybe give me a setting to control whether I see what people I follow like, but I would like the following feed to show me what people I follow like.

Also, enshittification is an awfully strong word to apply to a site with barely any advertiser presence yet.

(Which isn’t me declaring Bluesky Is Enshittifying or even This Decision Was Bad Actually; just that a site can start down the slide for very excusable reasons.)

True. I just assumed the algorithm that defined Hotness would be different enough to make a noticeable change right out of the gate, even without bad actors gaming it yet.

However Most Liked replies first has been around for ages, and seems to work ok. No wonder people have been moaning about pins if they've had most recent set, for me they just come as a list at the end.

Well, I just checked and my default still seems to be newest replies although I notice there is a setting for hot replies.

How? It's a very simple algorithm and the only "knob" you can turn is like, same as before. It's actually far less gameable than the previous default which favored early responses with no time decay. And newest or random just generate bad experiences. What's the downside?

It's a decent choice, but a terrible default.