Like Lemmy or any social media really, you get out what you put in. If you just follow the generic feed without following anyone, yeah it's going to suck.
You can make lists, so one for your friends, one for news, one for a hobby. Or you can filter hash tags to really narrow in on a topic. People also make "starter packs" of who to follow for any topic you can think of.
This format is also unbeatable for breaking events.
I too live in North America, and my currently 3 year old goes to kindergarten every day for the full day.
My tip is: Beacons, beacons everywhere </Buzz meme>
I don't do anything too sophisticated, just something like:
Scan this image of a recipe and format it as JSON that conforms to the schema defined at https://schema.org/Recipe.
Sometimes it puts placeholders in that aren't valid JSON, so I don't have it fully automated.. But it's good enough for my needs.
I've thought that the various Nextcloud cookbook apps should do this for sites that don't have the recipe object.. But I don't feel motivated to implement this myself.
I take pictures of my recipe books and ask ChatGPT to scan and convert them to the schema.org recipe format so I can import them into my Nextcloud cookbook.
I'm debating getting this on mobile or steam deck, is it largely the same experience?
Because users value usability over privacy.
The major thing that make Mastodon unusable is lack of users. That and lack of algorithmic feeds.
That's a good point. The original question was why would someone pick blenny Bluesky over mastodon? You just hit the nail on the head.
It's because the vast majority of users value features and usability much higher than privacy.
Everyone pays for not using nuclear too, a thousand fold more so.
I just bought a drive from them last month (from Canada) and just received a $60 duty bill. The time before that I got nothing. YMMV
Think of it like your house. You can ask people to leave if they say something you find offensive. That is not infringing on their free speech.
If the owner of a shopping mall wants to ban the word banana, they can ask anyone who says it to leave. That is also not infringing on their free speech. That's because shopping malls are not owned and operated by the government.