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BS is a cynical data-grab and will lock down and back-stab its users as soon as it can do so and be competitive.

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As opposed to X, which told users it would be using their content to train Grok.

No matter which way you spin it, Bluesky is significantly better than X.

except on X you can actually say what you think.

https://x.com/search?q=bluesky%20banned&src=typed_query&f=to...

I can't even view that link without logging in

https://x.com/elonjet

…weird

not really. its stalking. it poses a direct threat to someones safety. and people arent even supposed to have that information under the current rules... thats why its only possible to get his jets location by crowd-sourcing it. anonymity for high profile passengers is a legitimate concern, enough for the FAA to bake it into how these flights are tracked. soon this loophole will be closed and then what will you point to? how could you seriously compare this to being banned for saying something that is politically incorrect?

you can't even say "cis" on twitter without the tweet getting hidden

Elon just posted a Tweet that if you post pictures of food you can get banned. Food. It's run at the caprice of a thin-skinned Napoleon at this point.

Tweets seem a truly terrible way to train Ai.

In my opinion : yes. But when you think about who Elon became, I think … Yeah a truly terrible way to train an AI.

Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and then stop.

I'm thinking that it's a cynical way to put all the data on an open network rather than a gated and paywalled one. As far as I can tell, Bluesky is still entirely funded by Twitter and that will eventually be cut off. They're betting on the Google/Mozilla type relationship to be maintained for now. They need to make the indexing service easier to replicate before that happens or the network will collapse when funds dry up.

They have nothing to do with Twitter anymore. Last round was funded by Blockchain Capital

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

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