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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
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Ability to hide self from recommended follows #2442

Open mary-ext opened 10 months ago

mary-ext commented 10 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Bluesky has a problem, and it's coming from follow suggestions.

This happens pretty much daily, and the follow pattern is always the same. It always starts off from following one user from the curated recommendation (which is usually bsky.app), proceeding to follow their recommendations, then proceeding to follow the recommended user's recommended follows, and so on.

This has been problematic for both me and our circle, especially since these users (or bot?) essentially use me as the gateway to everyone else in the circle.

Describe the solution you'd like

A label to hide oneself from recommended follows. (!no-suggest-follows)

Yes, the proper option here would be to fix this what-might-be-botting problem, but I think the recommended follows is just a flawed system to begin with, and people should be allowed to opt-out of discovery features like these easily.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None.

Additional context

None.

DrewMcArthur commented 1 week ago

related, imo, under the theme of "opt-out of discovery features": #4704 , #5905

mary-ext commented 1 week ago

I'd rather keep these separate.