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Are people setting up Flashes? And, if so, are you really setting up a dedicated account? I’m trying to decide how to proceed…because social media is exhausting and I need efficiency.

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I'm personally not interested in keeping my photos and the rest of my posts separate, so if I use Flashes it will be with the same account. My knitting and nature photos are just as much me as the political musings and if people don't like that they don't have to follow 🤷🏻‍♀️

My struggle is that I want to read breaking news and see quilt photos in different realms. In the old days I was a twitter lurker to keep up on news and used IG for the visuals. Now I don’t know how to manage it.

Timna, you can easily set this up within Bluesky. I have different feeds pinned to my menu bar at the top and can choose if I want political/news media or quilts. Here’s how: step 1) on your Home Screen click the menu (3 horizontal bars in top left), Then click lists.

Step 2: Click + New in top right. Create the lists (realms) you want to create, e.g. Quilts, or Politics. Go. Back out to your Home Screen. Step 3: go to the account profiles you want in your different lists, and click on the three dots next to Following … then click add to lists. Choose the list.

Step 4: Home Screen top left horizontal menu bars, click feeds. You’ll see all feeds listed incl the lists you created. Here “pin” your lists so they appear at the top of your Home Screen. Voila, you have different curated feeds only looking at what you want to include there. Hope this is helpful.

Honestly I would prefer not to do so. I want to create stuff but finding myself far too often on social media. I set up bluesky just a while ago and in fact now I'm using Instagram and bluesky and I'm spending even more time online. I don't like that. It's exhausting - I totally agree