WHY CAN'T WE FUCKING HAVE HOPE FOR MORE THAN A SINGLE FUCKING DAY?!!

Oh. I have diagnosed PTSD tho have been called BPD before. I… It's not a voice per se but yeah it's really harsh on me. This sounds super familiar.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Next select Settings, and then Moderation on the next screen. At the bottom of the Moderation page under "Advanced" is a section called "Bluesky Moderation Service" that looks like an info box. It in fact leads to more settings.

The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".

This means if you are in the habit of saying things like "fuck Trump" or "I hope Cheney burns in hell", probably a good amount of your feed isn't seeing those posts because, unbeknownst to them, Bsky has shielded grown adults from "rude" "threats" like this.

Some of the filters are useful and you may want them. I do have sexually explicit content hidden bc I got tired of seeing porn in my news feed, it's not what I use bsky for. There are filters for content that may be triggering, too. But you probably want to turn off the "rude" filter, among others.

Remember that people do abuse these tags to keep you from seeing content they don't like. You may think you don't want to see threats but conservatives flag anything hostile toward their Great Leader as threats, for example. Keep that in mind as you pick your filters.

I will also note that these filters, as seems inevitable, wind up only filtering liberal leaning content. I have seen plenty of violent videos of ICE agents kidnapping people, despite pretty much every filter being on when I checked my settings. Apparently conservative violence doesn't count. 🙄

Given how Twitter filters worked, I also unchecked "misleading" content or "conspiracies" because again, these are flags conservatives use to spam legitimate news reporting, thus keeping you from seeing it if you have these filters on.

Uh. Whoa. Took the dog for a little adventure and this thing had popped off. Hello, all. Thanks for being overwhelmingly cool in the replies. Glad you found the info helpful. I'm going to add on a few quote skeets from people who had useful additional information.

Apparently you may need to change these settings on both the app and desktop, so check that if you use both. bsky.app/profile/unas...

Important PSA re: the way content about trans people is often incorrectly flagged as sexual or pornographic, worth considering as you choose your settings. bsky.app/profile/vill...

I had decided to keep this setting on because engagement farming certainly sounds like just spam, but this skeet informs me that it may filter things I don't want filtered. bsky.app/profile/kura...

A quick way to change the settings on desktop bsky.app/profile/octo...

Okay it would seem I can't go any further back in my mentions but several people from the UK said they were not able to change moderation settings without verifying their age via an ID upload, so PSA there.

I'll add on new skeets of useful info as they pop up. Sorry if I didn't get yours - I can only go back so far in my mentions, apparently - but please let me know if you have something I should add. Shout-out to all the folks who reposted in other languages. I learned many fun new swears.

Also, to everyone who posted something like this about the term "hamburger menu": I didn't name it, y'all. That's what it's called. No one consulted me about it or I would've called it "that line thingy one". bsky.app/profile/psic...

Instructions in Spanish: bsky.app/profile/manu...

Hrmm. Capitalism ruins all your favorite things.

We don't need phrenology on steroids. Fucking stop.

more people need t o know about this city referendum from 2015

Fuck anyone who thinks that being female is inferior. I LOVE BEING FEMALE.

I did not want to post this at all and it is actually making me nauseous so everyone clap

"Did women ruin the workplace?" No it's always been shit because of capitalist greed mongers. If anything, women improved it. Fuck your sexist bullshit NYT.

Transsexuated.

👀🤐

Could denying puberty blockers specifically targeting trans children, though allowing it for other conditions and forcing detransition be considered a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and be illegal under international law? @goodlawproject.org @jessothomson.co.uk

So they can't even do transphobia correctly?

Once again.

This is why it is important to believe me and other unhoused people in general when we ask for help the first time. People listening the 1600th time is too late. This is a result of the 1600th time. linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #MutualAid #HelpSky #KeepFolksAlive #BIPOCMA 💸💕 #FundSky #MutualAidRequest

How are we supposed to get through this all without becoming extremely bitter?

If the "coalition" is going to have people with nazi tattoos in it then you can count me the fuck out. If Platner wins and then switches parties to Republican, I don't wanna hear a single fucking person come crying to me about it. Y'all were warned and didn't listen.

I'm about all out of good faith for shit anymore. I've been burned way too many times by two faced politicians to really tryst any of them. There's like all of four that I'm aware of, worldwide, that I'll tolerate.

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

#SaveSpeech starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again! stop-paypros.neocities.org

Something something 3rd amendment. Shut off the utilities.

I should learn the harp.

@vibingvalerie.bsky.social would you want to be part of our Discord community? It's very laid back and chill. Very supportive and kind environment. We're planning to set up a Minecraft server for the group and do Movie nights every Sunday. You'd be welcome there.

Please help Valerie!

Up to 60% now. But hasn't moved in a couple of days

Demand Avoidance and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria are garbage RNG traits. I want a character creation refund.

Shout-out to all the cis white guys using their cis white guy privilege to verbally pulverize shitty cis white men.

Im unfollowing people who used to be mutuals until they unfollowed me. All intersections die at disability. I will not continue to follow you if you have abandoned me

The anti-quisling Schadenfreude is strong today.

Yep. Let's get this trending again. Call the censoring paypros! Marathon not a sprint! But keep it going!

Don't forget to protect the bricks too!

I wouldn't mind being added to more starter packs. 🙃

Unfortunately, The rates shot up immensely. 3 nights ended up being $800 and I didn’t have that. I only had the $630. So we are only safe until Monday morning. 🫠💔 linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive #FundSky 💸💕 #BIPOCMA #MutualAidVoid

Don't forget to do your self care!