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.
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.
b-b-but it’s the future!11!
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So Mastodon?
Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it’s probably crash the server.
Intentional scarcity as a method of throttling the usrt base. For the reasons you said.
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.
afaic it’s the “for profit” that tanks these places and nothing else. it’s why I went more into mastodon than Bluesky.
Venture capitals specifically
Went from one billionaire’s pet project to another’s and am shocked… SHOCKED, I say! That it’s the same drivel and slop.
Technically the first was the same billionaires pet project, he just divested himself of it to create a new honeytrap for tech investors.
American billionaire social network behaves like American billionaire social network…**pretends to be shocked**
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’.
Bluesky users really seem to not understand what the platform actually is, coming from a user myself that actually enjoys it. You already have the ability to adjust your feeds as well as create your own and use some made by others so no need to use the optional app. Most of those feeds are publicity editable too so you can change what others users see in their “For You” feed. It’s probably the most transparent around while also being pretty easy to hijack what someone sees if they think it’s just some standard social media site of 5 years ago. Added some screenshots of oen of the sites that shows the public info of what is in different People’s for you page
The For You feed is run by some rando not affiliated with Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social
Good catch
Speaking of which. Attie is supposed to enable anyone to create this sort of thing, although Claude Code is way overkill for the examples given.
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.
This is a decent outline for how to use AI to improve a service.
A fully optional and separate product to interpret natural language interactions for a non-generative AI.
This seems like an appropriate use of AI.
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.
@bluegrok is this true
@throws_lemy fuck em.
In any case I still have a Plurk account from almost 20 years ago. And afaik Plurk is mostly run by Taiwanese.
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And the Liberal enshittification begins.
Elon Musk: Join me my fellow centrists and lukewarm liberals! Join me!!!
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Why do you need “vibe coding” for UI/UX customisation?
Why can’t you have a regular app that has customisation features (can even use LLM or ML tech)?
I am hardly anti-AI and I’ve vibe coded some small elements of my work projects (very simple modules with extremely clear input -output requirements in a domain I have a lot of business experience in), but this seems like AI for the sake of AI (or hype and PR associated with what is marketed as AI).
Speaking as someone who just vibe coded a client for lemmy, no matter how customizable you make your UI it will not be as customizable as having an LLM edit the code directly. The UI I wanted was completely different then the scroll based UI that most current lemmy clients have so the only way to make it was through vibe coding. You can check it out at stakswipe.com and you’ll see there was no way to customize a standard scroll based interface to have the same swiping behavior.
Also customizable UIs tend to be very menu heavy, so yeah you may be able to move the like button to the top right of the post, but to do so you’ll have to navigate through three layers of menus and settings to get there. Whereas with AI you can just type " move the like button to the top right". Customizing using natural language you know is a way better experience then figuring out a bunch of configuration and templating software that’s different for each app.
That’s a fair point.
Still, I think for the median user interested in customisation, a fully vibe coded front end may be overkill.
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