American billionaire social network behaves like American billionaire social network…**pretends to be shocked**
Went from one billionaire’s pet project to another’s and am shocked… SHOCKED, I say! That it’s the same drivel and slop.
Technically the first was the same billionaires pet project, he just divested himself of it to create a new honeytrap for tech investors.
omfg, BlueSky continues to just knock it out of the park.
Incredible.
It was like less than a week or two ago I was trying to explain that BlueSky is just rainbow capitalism, that is centralized, and will censor you, just give it time.
A year ago some goober was extremely convinced that it was totally possible and not actually that difficult to set up your own Relay, so, it actually is federated and decentralized the same way Lemmy or Mastadon are!
Year later, nobody has gotten around to doing it.
And now it has a hallucinatory theft powered autocomplete machine… that… ostensibly exists… to… manage their feeds.
Because apparently that is so complex or difficult that it… needs an assistant?
And this was made by a former member of the board who apparently just left so that he could focus in his side project, which is totally different from BlueSky, but also only works with BlueSky.
Just chef’s kiss, mwah.
We need a ‘Fell for it Again’ meme variant for turbolibs.
There’s 0 difference between TwitterBrains and RedditMods.
Well ok, TwitterBrains are better at scamming people, at least they’re getting paid.
… I miss Tom.
Just bring back MySpace ‘Classic’.
There’s BlackSky now, the first full outside server setup (Things like relays and PDSs are just smaller components of the larger required stack)
So you know, they’re at 2 total instances currently.
Keep an eye on https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
Article about people having strong emotional reactions
Gives four examples, no indication as to the extent of the phenomenon
cool this is very useful
I tried bluesky when it started getting big. Just twitter before muskrat bought it. It wasnt impressive. Jumped ship and lurke din Mastodon instead.
I can’t help but read Bluesky in the same dorky way that idiot Senator said it.
John Kennedy. That’s the dude.
You talkin’ 'bout Blewskee?
“Mr Gorbachev, tear down this blewskee”
Yeah, that. I can’t find a good video of this though.
I don’t care if they have the app or not but give me a way to opt out of that app scraping my posts for content.
Because, right now, “just don’t use it” doesn’t cut it because it’s still training all the posts on Claude.
the article doesnt say anything abput scraping (correct me if i am wrong).
its a separate app to generate feeds. i dont know what this really provides but from what i can tell, if you dont use ir, it doesnt affect you.
It generates your post based on prompts, which includes all Bluesky posts. Of course they scrape the firehouse. They also summarize conversations when you’re building a feed, so they definitely do train on post content.
@bluegrok is this true
Bluesky users really seem to not understand what the platform actually is, coming from a user myself that actually enjoys it. You already have the ability to adjust your feeds as well as create your own and use some made by others so no need to use the optional app. Most of those feeds are publicity editable too so you can change what others users see in their “For You” feed. It’s probably the most transparent around while also being pretty easy to hijack what someone sees if they think it’s just some standard social media site of 5 years ago. Added some screenshots of oen of the sites that shows the public info of what is in different People’s for you page
The For You feed is run by some rando not affiliated with Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social
Good catch
Speaking of which. Attie is supposed to enable anyone to create this sort of thing, although Claude Code is way overkill for the examples given.
In any case I still have a Plurk account from almost 20 years ago. And afaik Plurk is mostly run by Taiwanese.
And the Liberal enshittification begins.
Elon Musk: Join me my fellow centrists and lukewarm liberals! Join me!!!
I’m still amazed that people fell for that old ass artificial scarcity through invite links/codes trick when bluesky became the most popular shitter alternative. Made me question the sanity of some people i otherwise respect. Anyway, even if they made a less optimal decision they atleast left elons fucking nazi platform.
The invite codes were a way to throttle users so they didn’t suddenly get an explosion overnight they weren’t ready for. It’s not totally uncommon to have semi-closed test phases. I don’t see the problem with them.
The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.
Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.
This. I found the invite codes extremely dumb so I only started using it after they got rid of that. I’d love to only use Mastodon, but the reality is there is barely anyone there. I want to follow artists and artists go where their stuff gets seen by many people. Mastodon sadly cannot provide that at this time.
So Mastodon?
b-b-but it’s the future!11!
distressed squidward noises
You can’t complete the four stages of enshittification without the first stage: make a really, really good product.
Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it’s probably crash the server.
Intentional scarcity as a method of throttling the usrt base. For the reasons you said.
afaic it’s the “for profit” that tanks these places and nothing else. it’s why I went more into mastodon than Bluesky.
Venture capitals specifically
I just couldn’t get into those platforms, what do you use them for?
Whipping ones dick out and slapping it down on th internet table.
tink 😅
Room for one more? 😉
Every single action the Bluesky team makes shows just how out of touch with and openly hostile to their user base the heads are.
I wonder how much of this is for users and how much is to keep VC cash flowing. Since you need AI to keep those dirtbags happy.
Probably the VC one in this case. Which to date has been really rare for bluesky.
Every single one? Really?
Name 5 others…?
Removing an anti-harassment law specifically so Jesse Singal doesn’t get banned, then going on a ban wave against prominent transgender people, then responding to backlash over THAT with that fucking “WAFFLES” tweet, then revealing the platform is vibe-coded and the lead dev getting super pissed off when people started connecting the dots towards why the platform is so fucking unstable all the time and somehow we don’t have images on DMs, then-
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Electric type.
