Bluesky Social 17+

Honest, positive critique. After leaving all Meta platforms, and others. This is a refreshing mostly non censored, public space for diverse, eclectic People who seek Community, Mew Connections, Re-Networking from exodus of former follows. Solid creatives, political balance of viewpoints, much less negative noise. The best features: control over your audience, profile and user experience. Clean cut-user friendly navigation. Open tools for range for adult content, etc. Open to tweak most settings. And runs a lot like older bird app but more streamlined/better. Biggie for those Disabled as myself: Alt Text and Accessibility options. It Permits real Blocks and those Blocks mean the person is actually Blocked and cannot see or use your account for Starter Packs; Lists. Has Feed List for those who understand coding. Now, The setbacks: glitches a lot; crashes too often, needs to add more characters to the posts. Use better controls for Starter Packs- allow user options-set to /open/must approve/ being put in Starter Packs. And list all Starters Packs you’ve created and those you’re put in under your TAB. Options: choose hide/show tabs publicly on profile. And edit posts should be mandatory w/ time restraint. Allow link in profile for (1) other platform. Add audio capabilities for those who don’t do videos. Otherwise, it’s growing rapidly, and if you curate your content n followers/follow its brilliant social media platform. I find it engaging.

This app is an alternative to X/Twitter. It has a lot of the same features as X/Twitter with some minor differences. Mainly you can only post videos that are 60 seconds long. Anything longer you have to comment and add the rest. The block function actually blocks the user from seeing your posts. However, the algorithm on this app is not as fine tuned as X/Twitter. It needs some work. But many users on this app are friendly. You don’t have to worry so much about people just being mean to you just cuz you said something that seemed dumb to them. If you are nice, they will be nice. Don’t respond aggressively and you won’t have a problem. Keep in mind though that many users recently joined from X/Twitter. Many are still sore about their experiences there. You may come across users that are venting a lot about it or still have an account and are posting stuff that they see over there that is irking them. Just try to ignore it if you don’t like it. The Bluesky team is also struggling to keep up with Bluesky massive growth due to the X/Twitter exodus so try to be patient with them. The growth was unexpected and sudden for them.

Downloaded the app a bit ago after the recent changes to twitter and honestly it’s safe to say bluesky is a lot better. No ragebait or drama and everyone’s friendly with eachother. You don’t get bullied for just existing and people actually interact with your posts. The feed is full of wonderful artists and talented people too instead of just being based off who’s the most popular on the app. However Im not a fan of how difficult it is to make your feed match your tastes, even just a little bit. I know you can pin separate feeds to scroll through to see medias you enjoy but they’re often stale, and only show posts that include certain words which causes a lot of posts to go unseen due to not having those keywords.

For example— I follow multiple jjba feeds and post almost exclusively about jjba, and most if not all of my mutuals post about it as well. yet in my time on the app ive only gotten two jjba related posts on my feed and neither of them involved any possible keywords. I understand the main feed is meant to be for discovering new people and making friends and whatnot, but I’d like to enjoy meeting new people who are from MY fandoms without having to join 20 different feed groups in order to meet them. It’s unfair that my feed is full of stuff like super mario and guilty gear but nothing that I actually enjoy. This is an issue for hundreds of people, please don’t ignore our complaints about this.