You may soon have the ability to give posts a thumbs-down on Bluesky. The alternative to Twitter has recently announced plans to test a “dislike” button aimed at improving the personalization of users’ feeds.

The idea is that disliking posts that you find unappealing will affect the content displayed in your feed.

Bluesky elaborated on this test feature in a blog entry:

“Shortly, we’ll begin testing a ‘dislike’ feature as a new feedback mechanism to enhance personalization in Discover and other feeds. Dislikes assist the system in discerning what types of posts you’d like to see less frequently. They may also subtly influence reply ranking, minimizing the prominence of lower-quality replies. Dislikes are private and the signal is not global — it predominantly impacts your individual experience and, to some degree, others within your social neighborhood.”

To clarify, dislikes will remain unseen to the public — individuals won’t know what you dislike or the number of dislikes a post has received.

Although this isn’t a significant alteration to Bluesky’s functionality, it has the potential to improve the daily scrolling experience. Bluesky’s “Discover” tab is frequently overlooked or disliked by its power users due to its content being filled with uninspiring posts that have received likes. As writer Mike Pearl pointed out at Gizmodo, if the dislike button successfully filters out unwanted posts and subjects, it could change the Discover tab into something “valuable and potentially dangerously addictive.”

The internet is brimming with unwanted posts, but soon you might have the means to tackle this on Bluesky.