From e86c330bdfd8be8a7f44c40d05913cabf23474df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emily Hunt Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:26:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a section about tweaking settings to Bluesky blog post --- content/posts/230824-bluesky-signup.md | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/230824-bluesky-signup.md b/content/posts/230824-bluesky-signup.md index bd22a15..4e71b2a 100644 --- a/content/posts/230824-bluesky-signup.md +++ b/content/posts/230824-bluesky-signup.md @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ Twitter is **no longer fit for purpose** as a town square of academic discussion 2. Signing up 3. Finding people to follow 4. Feeds, feeds, feeds -5. Start interacting! -6. (bonus: set your domain name as your handle) +5. Settings & accessibility +6. Start interacting! +7. (bonus: set your domain name as your handle) ## 1. Getting an invite code @@ -105,7 +106,32 @@ You can also search for more feeds by going to the "My Feeds" tab on the app and As a final tip, you can press the ⚙️ (cog) icon on the "My Feeds" tab to **rearrange which order feeds appear in** on your home screen, as well as **which feeds are pinned**. -## 5. Start interacting 🥳 +## 5. Settings & accessibility 📐 + +There are a few settings that you also may want to tweak in the app. Navigate to the "Settings" tab on the web, or the "Settings" part of the menu on the top-left of the mobile app. + +#### Settings: Accessibility: Require alt text on images + +Firstly, let's talk about **alt text**. Alt text on images is [really important for improving the accessibility of the web](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/). Most social media sites support it, but Bluesky has something uncommon: you can _require_ it on images you post. I recommend turning it on: it makes it impossible to forget to add! + +#### Settings: Appearance + +Now is a great time to turn on **dark mode** if you're also a vampire. 🧛‍♀️🦇 + +#### Settings: Advanced: Home feed preferences + +There are some things you may want to tweak about your experience on the app here. The main thing is that you can change how many **likes** a reply to a post needs to have to be **shown in your home feed**. + +By default, this is set to 2 -- but you may prefer a lower number (like 0) if you want to see everything the people you're following are interacting with. You will always see all replies to your own posts in your notifications. + +In addition, you can also show/hide **reposts** and **quote posts** from this window. + +#### Settings: Advanced: Content languages + +The final setting worth mentioning to get you started is **languages**. Select which languages you'd like to see in feeds on the site. + + +## 6. Start interacting 🥳 **Congratulations!** You're done getting set up on Bluesky. You should now be following a good number of people, and you should have a few feeds to look at for extra content. Now comes the fun part! -- 2.54.0