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I'm trying to like Bluesky. X has a large tech community and some deep thoughts/discussions on tech and philosophy matters, but I can't find similar people or groups on Bluesky yet.


On both Twitter and Bluesky, my best results at feed building have come from finding one person I find valuable, then looking at and following people they interact with and follow. A brief look at bios and recent posts helps. Then repeating this for additional interesting people.

I am fast to follow but also fast to unfollow if a person turns out to be a dud. An example of a dud is a person who is a cybersecurity expert but almost all their posts were about their travel: which hotels treated them well, complaints about flights, etc.

Bluesky also has a notion of lists, which folks seem to use. For example someone curates a list of people active in local politics and it’s a quick way for me to plug into what local activists and politicians are talking about. Again, I found it via one person I found interesting.


Search for "<topic of interest> starter pack"


It really depends what you are looking for. Try searching for some starter packs to seed your follow graph. The below site works well but the search is a bit dumb/literal and the packs are all user created so you'll want to check some of the accounts in the packs that come up before you blindly follow them.

https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs


Same with Mastodon for me. It's good, and the app is well done, but there's just no reason for me to use it.




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