I tried bluesky when it started getting big. Just twitter before muskrat bought it. It wasnt impressive. Jumped ship and lurke din Mastodon instead.
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Article about people having strong emotional reactions
Gives four examples, no indication as to the extent of the phenomenon
cool this is very useful
American billionaire social network behaves like American billionaire social network....**pretends to be shocked**
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.
In any case I still have a Plurk account from almost 20 years ago. And afaik Plurk is mostly run by Taiwanese.
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.
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.
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.
Room for one more? 😉
tink 😅
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.
b-b-but it's the future!11!
distressed squidward noises
So Mastodon?
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.
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.
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.
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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
Can someone explain to me why this is bad?
It's a separate app so you don't have to engage with it if you don't want to
It's helping people to control their experience, which IMO is a good thing
This is also probably helping with the development of the platform in general, if someone has a good UI idea but doesn't have the technical know how to implement it, now they can. They can then test it out, refine it, share it and then maybe it gets added to the main UI. Same with feed algorithms. It makes development more bottom up.
This is a decent outline for how to use AI to improve a service.
A fully optional and separate product to interpret natural language interactions for a non-generative AI.
This seems like an appropriate use of AI.
I'm going to reserve judgement on this since letting the user control their own feed is a good one. If it shits out a bunch of ads, which I doubt is possible because AI is hard to control, then yeah, it sucks donkey balls.
Attie, which interim CEO Toni Schneider referred to as a “new product” that’s “not part of the Bluesky app” in an interview with TechCrunch, allows users to essentially vibe code their own custom feed using natural language prompts — or even build their own Bluesky app alternative on top of the service’s Atmosphere protocol, an ecosystem of interoperable social applications.
“You control it, you shape it, without having to write code or know how to set up these feeds,” Schneider enthused.
Yeah, I think people are wary of AI , which can be for good or bad, same way people can be pro AI, which can also be good or bad.
That being said, this sounds like it's basically getting it to help you curate what you see from the system, and needs no technical knowledge. I'm uncertain if it involves processing tweets through an LLM , but if it's open internet, it's probably being shoved into some LLM somewhere anyway.
from my interpretation it's not letting the user control anything except the prompt you give the AI, it then returns what it thinks you should build your list (and no doubt influenced by corporate interests)
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And the Liberal enshittification begins.
Elon Musk: Join me my fellow centrists and lukewarm liberals! Join me!!!
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