My big issue with starter packs was that I'd follow them, and they'd have some random content creator in it that was tangentially related to the starter pack. Great, that's fine. I don't need the same 12 people giving me news and updates, etc.

The problem was that they would inevitably be on my feed, constantly talking about other stuff I am not interested in, and hardly ever discussing the starter pack subject. Which again, is fine. But I don't want that, I wanted the starter pack subject matter, and get unrelated content. So I just unfollowed all the starter packs.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 13 minutes ago

I mean this is the problem with Twitter style media in general. You have to just like the people and everything they say. Which tends to lead to just trying to make clever quotes which don't really give much in terms of content.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, you don't want starter packs, you want the threadiverse (obvi). These are individually curated by the community and irrelevant topics are downvoted and/or (hopefully) removed.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I followed a science starter pack, thinking it'd be, well, wall-to-wall science with a bit of random everyday stuff mixed in. Right?

Nope. Turns out, thanks to American current affairs, almost all of its members post political content almost all of the time. Close to the last thing I want to see on social media. (I don't blame them, as they're being hit hard by it all.)

To make it worse, most Bluesky users don't "do" hashtags or content warnings (unless it's promoting something - remember to like and subscribe!), so it's incredibly difficult to filter out the clickbait and rage-sharing. 😟