I'm no Dorsey fan but he was right when he said that Bluesky is recreating Twitter.
You can offer a million feeds but people want a "discover/hot" tab, it's the dopamine slot machine. The median user doesn't build feeds, they go with the main one and at best block the worst offenders.
And thus you are subject to centralization as the chronically-online know all the engagement tactics to dominate the algorithmic feed.
You'll either have MAGA propagandists or left-wing depression culture winning. In the case of Mastodon and Bluesky, it's the latter.
And it's not just the algorithm. Shared block lists will also be massively abused by activists to over-moderate and gate-keep.
No amount of technology can solve a culture war this intense.
You can offer a million feeds but people want a "discover/hot" tab, it's the dopamine slot machine. The median user doesn't build feeds, they go with the main one and at best block the worst offenders.
And thus you are subject to centralization as the chronically-online know all the engagement tactics to dominate the algorithmic feed.
You'll either have MAGA propagandists or left-wing depression culture winning. In the case of Mastodon and Bluesky, it's the latter.
And it's not just the algorithm. Shared block lists will also be massively abused by activists to over-moderate and gate-keep.
No amount of technology can solve a culture war this intense.