I feel the same way about social media platforms. Are there people I find objectionable on Mastodon, Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads? Definitely. On YouTube? Even more definitely. Do I care? No, because I tend never to see their posts, and when one pops up, I can block or mute them, and I never see them again. That’s in contrast with X, the former Twitter, where the top replies to many posts are from first class shitbird trolls. More and more I simply find X an unpleasant place to devote any of my attention, and so I go there less and less. I don’t eat at restaurants whose food I dislike, and the food at X tastes bad and is only getting worse.
Just by muting Elon on X, the “For you” feed becomes informative (if you don’t click on objectionable posts to train the algorithm to show you such content). Also who you are following might degrade your experience on X. It matters “who you hang out with”.
My X feed is free of politics or anything I’m not interested in. I’ve read that this is even easier to achieve on Bluesky.
The problem has always been to find a replacement that was going to get enough momentum for this kind of scientific/academic/professional community. Not just openEHR but wider into other standards and policy folks.
I have moved to to Bluesky and sense that it is rapidly reaching that point of takeoff.
It never happened with THreads and like others I found Mastodon was not a good fit - just a bit too difficult to get the mix of special interest with a broader interest that made the original Twitter so compelling.
I’ll stay on X for a wee while but plan to shut down my account in coming weeks. It is just too toxic.
I’m finding LinkedIn increasingly useful, to my surprise.
Yes, during this last year I found LinkedIn quite informative and useful.
And I think it is totally compatible with Bluesky. I see LinkedIn for more lengthy and reasoned posts, and Bluesky for quick, informal and viral reactions.
Is there a way to configure LinkedIn to receive only posts from people you follow (without reposts)? I want to read only the “original” content that the followed people write themself.
Same goes for “likes this”, “finds this insightful” in the Home feed. I don’t want to see these from most people.
I stopped following some people because they reposted too much and as a consequence I’m not notified of their posts (which I would be interested in).
In short – LinkedIn needs more fine-tuned notifications to be useful (meaning spend less than 30 minutes/day reviewing the Home feed).
I’ve spent another 20 minutes going through LinkedIn settings (I’ve done this many times in the past). I still don’t find a way to “turn off reposts from followed people”. @Pete_Bouvier I “challenge” you to find this setting “somewhere”
It is understandable – it is not in the LinkedIn interest to turn them off. They are after engagement and want users to stay on their site as long as possible. So it is in my interest to not use LinkedIn if I want to get some work done
Oh I love a challenge! I have fallen into the rabbit hole though…
You’ve got ‘updates from your network’ and ‘updates from people you follow’. One mentions activity, the other mentions reactions…
