I did read it. Here’s the company post that the article references and links to.

The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don’t, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.

They say the dislike button will apply to “Discover and other feeds” which is a little less relevant to me because I don’t use discover. Maybe I’d check it out more if it was better.

It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn’t indicate they’re changing that.

Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.