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How is it that I’ve never interacted with a political post on Bluesky but my entire feed is political posts? Do I need to switch to Mastodon or something to keep up with the JS folks?

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Some ideas: Following, not Discover Mute words Lists for JS or not JS I kind of want a personal ML-driven feed to filter out stuff like this. Guessing it's possible

The only Twitter-derivative I use with even infrequent regularity is a mastodon instance (ruby.social). Ive reduced my usage of other platforms because of this reason. (niche but I’m certain theres one for FE) Not that I dont care, its just…a lot. And I’d like to be more in control of the throttle.

ruby.socialRuby.socialIf you are interested in the Ruby programming language, come join us! Tell us about yourself when signing up. If you just want to join Mastodon, another server will be a better place for you.

Maybe I'm the oddball one here, but: - I never used "For You" on Twitter, always "Following" - When I migrated over here I ported as many follows as I could - then I went through a bunch of Starter Packs and liberally added many people I recognized or who sounded interesting

I've done that as well! I haven't kept up with it over the last few months though, but I've at least tried to follow a couple hundred developers or so.

I get some amount of political content, because I follow a bunch of people, and those people have opinions they want to share. but it's a natural part of my feed and not the dominant topic (or pushed down my throat)

custom feeds help, here’s my list: bsky.app/profile/zeu....

zeu@zeu.dev

Yeah no problem, did that a few weeks ago and haven't experienced fomo! Feeds: Web Dev Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Quiet Posters: bsky.app/profile/did:... Software Dev: bsky.app/profile/did:... Artist Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Good Vibes: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I subscribe to a lot of mute lists, particularly for democrats, leftists, and liberals (not an indication of my political ideology; just pragmatic 😅). Sometimes when I see a political post I’ll check to see if the poster is on any mute lists and subscribe to those lists.