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.
b-b-but it’s the future!11!
distressed squidward noises
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.
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.
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.
Every single action the Bluesky team makes shows just how out of touch with and openly hostile to their user base the heads are.
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-
afaic it’s the “for profit” that tanks these places and nothing else. it’s why I went more into mastodon than Bluesky.
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/
People getting pissed off about an app that is basically just a UI wrapper, and has absolutely nothing to do with the actual platform itself, is just emblematic of the state of the anti-AI witch hunters. Literally do not use it if you don’t like it, it’s really that simple.
Maybe you can take your own advice, and not spent time replying to comments you don’t like? I hear it’s really that simple.
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Maybe you can take your own advice, and not spent time replying to comments you don’t like? I hear it’s really that simple.
That’s not my advice or what I believe, so…?
It’s what you told them to do… you… advised them… to do that. Because you clearly didn’t like their comment.
It really is that simple, unless you’re being willfully ignorant.
Besides, the CLASSIC reply is to try and throw it back in MY face like I threw it in yours.
Why do you need “vibe coding” for UI/UX customisation?
Why can’t you have a regular app that has customisation features (can even use LLM or ML tech)?
I am hardly anti-AI and I’ve vibe coded some small elements of my work projects (very simple modules with extremely clear input -output requirements in a domain I have a lot of business experience in), but this seems like AI for the sake of AI (or hype and PR associated with what is marketed as AI).
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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**
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
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.
The people in these AI hate mobs are generally the opposite of tech-savvy. You’d have to know what weird ideas they have about this.
