Ah
Adult content won't have reach Fucking bullshit
Adult or queer content will be deboosted on the algorithm
They really have not liked that queer people have infiltrated their little techbro Twitter 2.0
Again they just activated blocks because trans people screamed at matt yglesias
And they can't have that Queers and pornographers and sex workers are not their target demographic
Not because I want to play Devil's Advocate or whatever, but more because I think it's valuable to know what we're criticizing to do it effectively. Some kind of "know your enemy" type thing.
From the devs own admission, the "What's Hot" feed (which is another tab in the app) i a huge hack right now (for a few days after I joined anything that got 8+ likes would get on there, it seems the minimum is at 12), mostly as a placeholder because the whole "value" "proposition" of Bluesky is that users/clients(app) would be able to build and offer algorithms. Like, there's already a third-party app for iOS that lets you see a "Mutuals" feed, and another web-based thing that offers alternatives as well so you can imagine almost anything going from there1
So while the statement is true that "adult content"2 is hidden, it is only in the "What's Hot" feed. Which for now is the only "algorithm-based"3 feed, but Bluesky's pitch is that you will be able to choose whatever you want in a "marketplace of algorithms"4 so if that shit takes off you as a user and poster/creator won't have an algorithm to point (or worry about I guess) to but multiples, probably as many as there are users depending on implementations, idk.
EDIT: oops I fucked the footnotes up, oops oops, should be good now
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disclaimer: I barely played with the API but the fact that these "custom algorithms" came out in a matter of days after the big invite explosions from last week speaks to the ease of implementation of these so I'm sure we will see A LOT of different ways to visualize one's feed, which I think is actually cool on paper.
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the guy (why.bsky.team) said in another post that they're using/experimenting with https://thehive.ai/ to classify content so you can imagine how that's gonna go. I /think/ there's also manual classification, but don't quote me on that.
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the whole "algorithm" conversation makes me sad because, like, reverse chronological feeds are algorithm-based, it's just that "Algorithm" became an umbrella term for "stuff that decides what content you see for you instead of respecting what you chose".
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I have no clue if this is supposed to be a literal marketplace or if it's just a way to say "everybody could offer algorithms"
this is a good explanation of this (other) dumb bluesky thing both in the 'i probably won't have to worry about this' sense but also in the 'reinforces how dumb all of bluesky is' sense
