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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
You can’t complete the four stages of enshittification without the first stage: make a really, really good product.
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…?
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.
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.
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,
@throws_lemy fuck em.
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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.
Literally do not use it if you don’t like it, it’s really that simple.
Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity.
Citation?
Assuming you’re asking in good faith, here’s a few to get you started:
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
- Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
- Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
- CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why
This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.
Edit: fixed a link format
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).
Speaking as someone who just vibe coded a client for lemmy, no matter how customizable you make your UI it will not be as customizable as having an LLM edit the code directly. The UI I wanted was completely different then the scroll based UI that most current lemmy clients have so the only way to make it was through vibe coding. You can check it out at stakswipe.com and you’ll see there was no way to customize a standard scroll based interface to have the same swiping behavior.
Also customizable UIs tend to be very menu heavy, so yeah you may be able to move the like button to the top right of the post, but to do so you’ll have to navigate through three layers of menus and settings to get there. Whereas with AI you can just type " move the like button to the top right". Customizing using natural language you know is a way better experience then figuring out a bunch of configuration and templating software that’s different for each app.
That’s a fair point.
Still, I think for the median user interested in customisation, a fully vibe coded front end may be overkill.
Because an LLM based interface allows you to say “I want my feed to look like Instagram” and it will just make it happen without you needing to tweak it endlessly. It is really the biggest strength of AI based tech, allowing for plain language input for what would normally be a relatively complex procedure.
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.
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.
I suggested they live their truth. I like criticizing things, like bad companies and inconsistent people.
Oh man, gottem! You really thought you did something there, didn’t ya?
So good, you had to tell use twice?
The app bugged out
