Ian Boudreau: We talked about this a lot last year when Bsky was just getting going but I think an important thing to remember if you want to keep things tolerable here is that unfollowing/muting/blocking is part of routine feed maintenance and if there's stuff that bums you out every day, you should remove it

We talked about this a lot last year when Bsky was just getting going but I think an important thing to remember if you want to keep things tolerable here is that unfollowing/muting/blocking is part of routine feed maintenance and if there's stuff that bums you out every day, you should remove it

Doesn't have to be a personal thing, muting for a couple weeks is often plenty

"The vibes are bad now!" Time to do some pruning, comrade

there comes a point where you have to regretfully accept that an account you follow is becoming a major bummer

If the vibes are bad, you made bad choices in follows for your own health. Many such cases.

that's the neat part the bad vibes are all coming from people I don't follow secondhand bad vibes

Would love a timed mute option. I can mute, but I have terrible memory for names so I can't go back to my mute list and remember who to unmute.

"...until after the election"

Since the API is pretty open, a competent programmer could certainly create an app to do that. Alas, I'm not a competent programmer.

Yes, exactly this.

Like I mute adult content accounts. Not because I’m a prude or think those accounts shouldn’t exist, but because that’s not why I come here, and I don’t want the algorithm to fill my feed with that.

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