I can't help but read Bluesky in the same dorky way that idiot Senator said it.
John Kennedy. That's the dude.
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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 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.
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
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
pikachu
Electric type.
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,