• Hond@piefed.social
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    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’.

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    9 days ago

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

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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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            9 days ago

            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.

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      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.