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 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.
b-b-but it’s the future!11!
So Mastodon?
You can’t complete the four stages of enshittification without the first stage: make a really, really good product.
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.
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…?
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.
American billionaire social network behaves like American billionaire social network…**pretends to be shocked**
Article about people having strong emotional reactions
Gives four examples, no indication as to the extent of the phenomenon
cool this is very useful
pikachu
Electric type.
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’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)
You may be right and they’re using weasel language, but that’s not what they’re implying:
allows users to essentially vibe code their own custom feed
or even build their own Bluesky app alternative on top of the service’s Atmosphere protocol,
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.
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.
@throws_lemy fuck em.
And the Liberal enshittification begins.
Elon Musk: Join me my fellow centrists and lukewarm liberals! Join me!!!
