Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and

This too heading towards enshittification ?

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This too heading towards enshittification ?

    As the article says, they’re trying to develop a standard like robots.txt that prevents scraping for usage by AI companies.

    While I think this is futile in an industry that’s already dominated by oligarchical tech companies, it’s at least an attempt to make things better than the status quo of “we’ll steal your shit and you can’t do anything nurr nurrrrr”

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Both funny and sad how quick folks are to comment just so they can dunk on Thing They Dislike, without bothering to look past the headline that misrepresents the point of the article.

      ‘Bluesky bad, updoots to the left’ mentality that I naively hoped had been left behind on Reddit.

  • Rekall Incorporated@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    That is why American-run commercial social networks are inherently not viable if you care about user focus. Any rational adult (of any nationality, from US to Botswana) can make their own conclusions regarding US-run commercial social networks over the past ~20 years.

    I deleted Twitter a while ago and switched to Mastodon, I did not move to Bluesky when it started getting big exactly because I knew their initial user-focus was a ruse (and their federation architecture seemed top heavy).