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'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.

Article about people having strong emotional reactions

Gives four examples, no indication as to the extent of the phenomenon

cool this is very useful

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'.

Went from one billionaire's pet project to another's and am shocked... SHOCKED, I say! That it's the same drivel and slop.

American billionaire social network behaves like American billionaire social network....**pretends to be shocked**

Every single action the Bluesky team makes shows just how out of touch with and openly hostile to their user base the heads are.

pikachu

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.

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.