Olives @olives@qoto.org

Fun Fact: The images in #YoujoSenki's ending are from the light novel. #anime

Now, Bluesky has confirmed that they engage in puritanical censorship.

Practically speaking, someone might have to use a particular social network to communicate (although, in the case of Twit, as I said before, I don't think I can be bothered with it).

Also, I don't think it makes sense to attack someone for using the Bluesky bridge. For one, the number of people who do so are, practically speaking, tiny.

But, also, unless you are RMS (and I don't think things went well for him), then chances are someone is going to use a sub-optimal social network to communicate.

Once again though, I think a slower pace of growth for the fediverse is okay.

In theory, someone could use the fediverse. In practice, there is a good chance they wouldn't, so it would practically come down to one Silicon Valley firm or another.

I agree that attacking someone for using Bluesky doesn't make sense, especially when the main competitor to it is Threads.

It looks like they're trying to backfill content now that they missed.

Okay, I think that the bridge going down once was noteworthy, but honestly, I don't think I can be bothered to follow along every single time it has stability issues.

Once again, it's looking like a platform which should have been launched back in 2015 - 2017. Post visibility controls are a standard feature nowadays.

I see the Bluesky bridge is unstable again.

From reading the discourse, I'm not sure Bluesky even has much in the way of post visibility settings, so I suppose that is another point for the fediverse.

For better or worse, anything that goes up onto social media should probably be assumed to be public. Don't rely on it to provide any privacy to you.

I don't think they will close the API (or not yet) but I could see more restrictions on it's use coming down.

"Someone trained an AI on Bluesky posts."
I remember that that was the rough excuse for Twitter / Reddit closing their APIs, in large part because they weren't getting a cut from it.

I've seen how this story plays out countless times, and I don't think I want to play along with it again. It didn't even take particularly long.

I mean, if Bluesky was working well enough, it'd be tempting to ignore whatever they're doing, but the signs are already there.

Before a company goes down the drain, they become weirdly puritanical and in a "boiling the frogs" type (slowly turning up the heat) manner. There is also a lack of transparency.

This Silicon Valley centric savior syndrome has only become more pronounced over the past five years.

The fundamental problem with Bluesky is that yet again, it's a Silicon Valley techbro parachuting himself in to "save you".

If it was 2015, it really might look like an interesting addition to the market.

In 2022, 2023, or 2024, it looks a lot like another out of touch incompetently run tech firm from Silicon Valley with, what might as well be secret policies, written by a middle manager somewhere and you have no clue how they came up with them.