The #Bluesky suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers.
@J12t Bluesky is new and people are hungry for others to follow?
I'm a little confused about why you come to the conclusion that suggested follower experience works. You get followed so that means it works?
How about on the other side? Have you followed any suggested accounts, and what has the experience been? Were they good suggestions? That would be interesting to hear about too.
@jeff Oh absolutely it would be possible to build something similar in the Fediverse. IMHO it would be very useful, but would have to be in the main flow of the onboarding experience.
@J12t That's just weird. It means that Bluesky is juicing your numbers. Do you think Mastodon should start automatically signing users up to follow meaningless accounts? Wonder how the the 49 Bluesky accounts that have now been assigned to follow your meaningless account feel about it?
@J12t I might like to learn a little bit more about how that worked. Did it make suggestions based on your bio? Do you think your followers have aligned interests, are they randos, are they pornstars?
@John Not randos, many people I know and appreciate the follow from. I suspect it's from affinity in the social graph of the people I decided to follow myself.
@J12t How does that suggested follower experience work on bluesky? Does it ask the new user for topics they are interested in and finds large-follower accounts that match?
@eob I didn't pay enough attention to the original onboarding I'm afraid. Right now, it suggests one person to follow because somebody I do follow responded to one of their posts. I think :-)
@beckett Actually my #bluesky unexpected followers are not random. Many people I know for certain and I appreciate them following me (although I haven't decided at all whether I'll be using Bluesky)
@alto@beckett It's not. There are all sorts of reasons why all sorts of people prefer the Fediverse, and they rarely agree on what they are, so "the reason" IMHO cannot possibly exist.
In my case, I want computers to do work for me that I then don't have to do. What I don't want is being manipulated. So I want algorithms to simplify my life, as long as those algorithms aren't controlled by other people who have objectives at odds with mine, which is what FB and the like does.
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