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It's difficult to say how big of a deal this is, essentially it's a merger of multiple institutions into bigger ones. Seems bad, but I'm not sure how bad.

The most obviously stolen election, made so obvious that the left will have mass mobilization, which will result in mass arrests by the State of Emergency police, and the American goons sent to secure the stolen election by Trump.

If Naboa was to win, it'd be by 1% or 2%, not by 11%. Obviously.

Religion is a net harm, and the world would be better without it

It doesn't make any action against religion inherently moral, but in the list of things you value in an ideal society, a fully secular world, should be included

It wouldn't solve most of the world's problems, but it would solve some

Elon will be forced to put a coal burner somewhere in the new Teslas so that his new Climate Change denying audience will feel inclined to buy the cars.

Shane Dawson did both.

Reddit Client (I think)

Depends on how spiceless they are

She'll never recover

There's some dialogue to be had with people who say that they've only heard bad stuff about them

But,99% who have a firm stance on Keffals/Vaush being pedo/racist/transphobic or whatnot,are a brick wall,and will follow the same dialogue tree on the next thread,even if you disprove them in this one

Looking over it, I broke the chain and replied twice to the same Tweet, I think this messed up my counting. The number of skeets that bsky says I did is probably correct.

I'm giving my way-too-long vibe-check on a thing I just joined
I was critical and passive-aggressive
Take anything of worth from this feedback

@bsky.app
@emily.bsky.team
@jacob.gold
@why.bsky.team
@rose.bsky.team
@bnewbold.bsky.team
@ansh.bsky.team
@dholms.xyz
@divy.zone
@jay.bsky.team
@pfrazee.com

Since I did go to all of this trouble, I mind as well tag bsky people.

With this being the 38th skeet in the thread, I think that this should probably be enough.

I do want this service to get better, mostly due to Elon spite and CurrentTwitter spite. I just think that this app as it stands will not hold users long enough to have these problems ironed out.

What else?

(Before I sent this skeet) My profile post count says that I've made 37 posts,but I've only made 36.I did make one post I deleted before posting 36 times,so maybe it's counting that one?

I like the arrows to expand the notifications, though I'd like if on mouse-over the blue disappeared

I mostly complained about the immediate website/app experience one has when using the website.

Regarding the moderation system, I don't know how it works, a post from enny seems to indicate that it's quite a bit less than perfect: https://bsky.app/profile/enny.whitefore.st/post/3jz7bsjqb7l2r

A few more things before I end this needlessly large thread

I didn't get an email to confirm my account, kinda unusual, but okay

The recovery password system works well, which is a pleasant surprise

I'm kinda annoyed that the post you're replying to has a (...), there should be a Show More button

Though on Android, a problem persists with the Home/Feeds page, as much as the feel of going from one Feed to another could have been great, fixing much of the bad experience of the website feeds, it often mistakes the swiping between feeds as a press on a post, opening it up where it shouldn't.

The app doesn't fit all of its contents properly in the frame (I have an S10e), notice the "a" that goes way too into the right (compared to the Reply button on the top left), and is cropped.

Side note, uploading pictures is much better on mobile.

Trying out the Android version, I'm first faced with an icon, and an initial login picture of a literal blue sky, something that is not carried forward in the visual identity of the app/website.

As in, the logo of the website is a blue squircle, but I guess on Android it's different.

Cool.

Another thing. Why does the countdown of characters suck compared to Twitter's?

Why is it blue for the first 300 characters and then red, and there's no intermediate state of orange/yellow?

Why doesn't it mark the excess characters in red, so we have a better notion of how much we went over?

I retract my previous statement, it seems like they aren't on a different pixel, it's the dot and the minus that give that impression, plus, the fact that one underline is bold and the other isn't.

Now, the time thing. Why does every skeet I post have -3s as a timestamp? Why can't it say "Just now" like a normal social media website.

Why is the timestamp a few pixels too high compared to the username?

Why does it have a mouse-over that lead to the post itself? You could just, not have that.

Ohh,bsky shat the bed with an update that ruined pictures while I was writing this Thread

Great

Now by default it puts your pictures in a 1.1 ratio?

So,if you're not posting a perfectly square image,and you wanna keep the content of your rectangular rectangle,you have to specify the Ratio as none

Once I set up up properly, it stopped feeling terrible, as most of the feeds I'd click were at the start, but the problems I mentioned still remain.

Also, why is the chronological Feed not something I can disable? And why is it permanently the default one? This rarely will provide the best content

When I press in the feed "Catch Up", it moves to the position it'd have if it was my first feed, giving me no indication that it's my sixth to last feed.

It's things like this that annoy me, purposefully bad choices, not the fruit of this being an unfinished product, but it being badly designed

Going to the home feed...man this sucks

You're meant to drag these around,with no notion of how many feeds you have,with no indicators of any sort on whether you're seeing the first or the last feed

This is so clunky,just have at least an indicator of « or »,if there are feeds to the left/right

I pinned them all, so they'd show up in my Home feed. Weirdly, you can't drag and order them, you can only manually put them on top with the arrows, one position at a time. Sure, I guess.

So,okay,we don't know how each Feed works, let's just grab a bunch of them,and we'll keep the ones that function well

Let's pick 15 of them + 2 Horny ones for research purposes

Somehow, this was beyond what bsky expected, as I only got the black background up top, and it's white when I scroll down

In retrospective, it seems like "What's Hot Classic" basically picks any post with more than 12 likes

And "What's Hot" actually does the job of a proper algorithm. We just don't know exactly how. So, the point maintains, we can't know if we need a better algorithm, until we can know the current one

These are the descriptions upon which we're supposed to determine how content will be fed to us.

There's no point in choice, if the choice isn't informed.

There should be two things in these feeds:
a) A link to the source code
b) A practical description of what shows up, and what's prioritized