I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
Jay Graber is not CEO anymore, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been busy.
Valorizing CEOs is for idiots and suckers.
With Attie, users apparently enter what are essentially chatbot prompts. The app will process whatever the user types, find posts they might be into across Bluesky and other atpro-friendly networks, and use that to customize their feed and overall experience.
It sounds like a stupid app, but of everything going on, this is just not something I care about.
took a role as chief innovation officer of the social media platform.
Uhmmm… chief what…?
As fake as it may sound
LOL exactly what I thought.
I get the same vibes from this woman I get from Sam Altman and Zuckerberg … just this cold, dead, vacant stare like there isn’t anything caring behind those eyes.
Ceo material
From the article:
New Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider told TechCrunch, “We’ve launched a lot of things inside Bluesky — Starter Packs and custom feeds, and all those kinds of things. This is a standalone product, and it’s the first one that’s built by Jay’s new team.” [emphasis added]
I know this goes against the whole culture but we are going to do it anyway -Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, etc.
It’s funny, I bailed when they started doing age checks. It made my life better
It’s literally a twitter clone, what did you expect?
Just get off twitter, FFS. That entire website is a bane on humanity.
They’re not doing anything to the app though, this is a standalone thing.
Yet. They aren’t doing anything to the app yet.
Call me when they do. Until then I’m using it. 🙂👍
How is it a bane on humanity, the different opinions people have or are you saying its all AI now?
Sensationalist headline that is not Gizmodo’s. OP, please use the original headline.
This is a standalone product, and it’s the first one that’s built by Jay’s new team.”
This is a product built by a group at Blusky. It’s not part of their core app.
Are you lost? This ain’t some news comm, it’s Fuck AI and I’ll title my posts any fucking way I want.
If I had a nickel for every time a corpo CEO who founded a microblogging social media platform stepped down to pursue even shittier corpo endeavors, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?
The irony is that Doofenshmirtz is pretty good standin for an out of touch corpo CEO
Even Doofenshmirtz wouldn’t stoop so low.
In one of the Season 5 episodes, Doof runs a gym as a front to get people to power his building, so he’s not too far off…
How do you figure? That’s environmentalism at its finest
Doof was helping people get healthy, and using their healthy output so the power they generate didn’t go to waste!
And over 90 percent of the time, his products are fully functional and fail only due to outside interference.
While not technical failures, his products tended to be so specific to his own personal issues and tastes that I would bet heavily against their commercial viability if I lived in their universe.
Fair enough.
Everything was pointing Mastodon until Bluesky came. And guess what? Turns out the problem is and always has been corporations and centralized ownership.
Mastodon has shit branding and I’m not afraid to say it.
In general, I’d say the fediverse as a whole has shit branding and is probably a bit too confusing and/or too much initial setup work for the average inertnet user.
But I’m glad it’s like that, to a degree, because it helps lower the amount of people overwhelming places like here with all the people who would gladly allow the place to be overrun by ads and corporate astroturfing.
The barrier to entry acts as a filter. Which is crazy to me, because it’s still so easy to sign up and conceptualize, imo.
I guess it just goes to show how accustomed people have become to uncanny and frankly insane levels of convenience.
I remember the first time I logged in to Gmail without putting my password in — when all of a sudden the entire internet used cookies in lieu of credentials (is that how it works? I’m not qualified).
I can absolutely understand that it’s difficult to conceptualise. For someone who already understands, the concept is dead simple.
But I still remember the confusion trying to join Mastodon all those years ago. You are shown a list of servers, huh? Never being introduced to the concept of federated social media, just being asked makes you feel like you don’t belong because you don’t understand what’s happening.
Ok, so you search around and work out that it’s across many servers. You now have to somehow pick a server with no frame of reference. Pick randomly and hope you don’t pick the lemmdgrad equivalent (which is always high on the list on join-lemmy.com BTW). Then you go to join and you have to apply - oh, but what if they don’t want me? How do they know who I am, why would they approve my application?
Each one of these things is a barrier to entry, they stack like swiss cheese so that very few people make it through.
Then there’s the part where all these people have friends that could help them through it, but the friends never mention the fediverse to them because of the whole don’t talk about thing. I am guilty of this.
Though it’s better now, it used to be that Lemmy and a lot of Lemmy-type alternatives’ documentation were more for people who wanted to host their own server, rather than someone who wanted to join a social network.
But at much the same time, that complication also hurts adoption, so if people ever wanted Lemmy to be a proper social media site to replace the existing ones, the barrier to entry does also need to go down.
What’s wrong with toots?
Wow, i ratiod the hell out of that guy on my last queef
Obama rebarfed me!
I cant believe tom cruise sharted that!
I think the mascot is cute
I hope you’re equally not afraid to contribute to it then
Mastodon has a very singular type of user and circle jerk communities. Maybe it’ll grow out of its tweeny phase some day. But until then, it will only attract more of the same crowd. Much to its detriment.
No way man, this time it will be different.
You would have thought people would have learned that this doesn’t work from Digg but you what I think affects it? I think the generational divide that exists between social media networks serves to stratify this learning such that each new generation gets to experience it for themselves because they were not on the last social media that turned to shit.
Corporate owned entities will always enshitify.
Yup.
This is why I moved away from Gitea to Forgejo. Nothing wrong with Gitea. I just can’t trust the corporate model anymore, especially not for something as critical as my code repos.
But your code repos are super easy to move. So shouldn’t it matter less?
I didn’t realize Gitea was corporate…
The elected leader transferred all the trademarks to a company he owns, and (I think) did away with elections.
That’s fucked up! How did they even invest that much authority in one position, elected or no?
“Unitary executive” theory has no place in the FOSS ecosystem! (or politics, for that matter)
I didn’t realize bluesky was corporate.
I did try it when it was new, but it always felt like kind of a circlejerk. Like it was good to be surrounded by mostly like-minded opinions, but I felt like everyone was trying to say something profound or boldly controversial and I was just like… “Yeah, we all pretty much agree, so… that’s that, I guess?”
But then again I was never really into the whole microblogging thing even before, so maybe that’s always how it was supposed to be…
Before I found the fediverse my main platform was reddit, though. Good ole anonymous forums, that’s all the social media I need…
If something isn’t very specifically only fediverse (and not just able to federate) or open source it’s corporate. You’ll always know because everything that isn’t corporate is very obviously not because it’ll tell you. I’m very surprised that anyone could think bluesky isn’t corporate.
Back when meta was pushing threads a lot of lemmy was suggesting blue sky as the “safe” alternative. I thought it wasn’t corporate at that point, though I never looked into it. At the time I thought federating was proof a site was one of the “good guys.” Lots of us here aren’t really techie, and we’re just bumbling along picking stuff up over time, with none of this as a priority, just trying to take baby steps towards a safer, more private net experience.
It was before I really knew about the fediverse, so when I read about how it was able to federate I didn’t really fully understand it but I thought it was this new radical thing that could revolutionize the internet.
I didn’t really discover the fediverse proper until I found matrix and lemmy, and the word kept popping up until I finally read about it.
I always considered myself tech unsavvy, but I now know that was because I’ve spent my whole life being gaslit by proprietary tech that’s virtually unusable because of the corporate obsession with control, and deliberate obfuscation of settings. I just kept despairing about privacy infringements and bad UIs, and felt resigned to that being the norm, so I avoided technology as much as I could. I didn’t truly understand FOSS and why it’s so important until maybe less than a year ago. Anything that sounded like tech jargon just kinda went over my head.
And then I found Linux and read a whole lot about it, got really excited to try it, and eventually got a computer with Endeavour. Now I’m in love with it. All my life, I thought I hated computers, but it turns out I just hated Windows (and Mac, hated that too).
I feel reborn, like there’s so much potential ahead now, so much to learn and explore. Sure, maybe tech jobs are dying out. I’ll never get a job as a software engineer, even if I learn programming. But outside of that I mean, pursuing tech as a hobby, there’s just a whole new world opening up for me, and it’s cause I finally opened that door labeled “FOSS”
Oh damn. It’s rotten all the way to the core.
Oh wait. I’m on mastodon. The correct platform to have migrated to
Ok it’s not BlueSky as in the BlueSky social media website. It’s another separate tool they’re developing.
The title is very misleading.
Thank you! I was wondering if I needed to quit the new Twitter.
Bsky enhittified the day it was formed.
The problem: Twitter is being centrally controlled, by one large corporation which can be corrupted.
The solution: A new “company” with a “trusted board” instead of investors!
Bsky is slowly becoming twitter because someone who thinks like businessman can’t comprehend running a project without a company and a “trusted board” behind it, with capital from elsewhere fueling the whole thing. Jack Dorsey probably had good intentions, but he’s just too near sighted (or not the right person) to create a viable alternative disconnected from the business minded framework a true open decentralized twitter replacement needed.It’s basically just Twitter in the early days, way before the Musk takeover. It will follow the same path eventually, as all VC funded tech
That’s the thing, like it’s just twitter with a different logo. Does nothing different, still has questionable ties to questionable people, monetization in its short term future. It’s basically a Twitter clone.
People forget that Twitter turned to shit long before musk showed up. They were the ones who refused to enforce their own TOS for trump for years.
When Sam Altman buys Bluesky, you can expect the cycle to repeat itself.
i stopped using twitter around 2013 after adopting it in 2007. i deleted my account entirely when it sold
I used it in 2011, because I was trying to make sense of what the hell even is this? It made no sense to me. Stopped using it until 2014, when I made my second ever post, and then stopped using it again until 2018 when a professional athlete that I happen to share the same name with tried intimidating me off my handle. That didn’t work (how you approach people matters!). But I still never used it.
