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bluesky-social / social-app

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
https://bsky.app
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ability to opt-out of "Discover" feed (and other feeds) #4704

Open mm14kwn opened 1 week ago

mm14kwn commented 1 week ago

Seeing as there seems to be a refusal to provide privacy features like locked accounts and visibility controls, there should at least be a way to keep your account as private as possible - the "discover" feed is controlled by bluesky Devs and directs accounts towards users with no consideration for if they actually want that. Ideally it should be opted out by default and people can choose if they want to be featured in it, but if that's not acceptable then it's imperative we have a way to opt out of this feed, it drives unwanted attention and is a clear safety risk to privacy focused users. Bluesky Devs control this feed so should be able to control this.

Similarly, we need to be able to opt out of other feeds - I understand this is more complex but should still be implemented.

beholdnec commented 1 week ago

If I'm not mistaken, it is possible to prevent yourself from appearing on a feed by blocking the feed creator. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The creator of the Discover feed is @bsky.app .

mm14kwn commented 1 week ago

You can't do this as far as I know with the bluesky Discover feed as it's run by bluesky devs? Unless I can do this by blocking @bsky.app?

qazmlp commented 6 days ago

Having this as a per-post setting would be great for Activity Pub cross-compatibility.

(I assume it would also be easiest to implement that way, in terms of letting feed generators filter out those posts.)