I wish Bluesky would finally announce how they plan to monetise it all. It feels like things are stuck in-between trying to be “open to the community”, gather developer momentum around ATProto, the promise of decentralisation and independence… and the unknowns of their roadmap ahead?
It’s all very nicely written but the risk of committing oneself (as a user, as a developer, as a social/marketing person, etc) only to get surprised by what/how they generate profit from is just unsettling.
> In some locations, we may be required to restrict access to certain features or content unless you complete an age assurance process and demonstrate that you are an adult.
Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media and other websites as soon as they start requiring said verifications.
It's not the fault of BlueSky or their users, but I really haven't enjoyed the social media climate right now. If I want to have a discussion about subject X I would need to be deep inside echo chamber social media network Y. For some subjects that is BlueSky and for others it would be platforms I don't want to participate in.
I think the reality is that most social media platforms will inevitability create hyper-polarized audiences that do little more than generate content.
Everyone calls X a "dumpster fire" etc, but when I go on there I see see great tech conversations. Database people having fun and chatting about projects. Lots of hackers. A much larger network than bluesky.
It's both. There are still lots of people having interesting conversations on X, but the second anything gets even the smallest amount of reach your replies will be full of really crummy (and promoted) blue-check trolls interrupting and being angry. The site in general also makes my adrenaline spike in an unpleasant way if I use any of the public feeds for more than about thirty minutes, which seems to be the goal they're optimizing for. I'm happier just avoiding the place.
Maybe they should include any form of practical appeal process in their policies, so if you get banned from, lets say, leaving a PDS ~6 months ago, which got taken over by bots ~2 week ago, you could appeal the fact that you got swept up in the bans.
Instead the only process is to email an address that no one gets any response from for months on end. (or I guess consider taking bluesky to court, by what this seems to say. Kinda very unreasonable)
Haven't even read the new guidelines since I don't use blue sky (because it's crap) but every time I see someone complain about a "lefty safe space" it seems like what they actually mean is the exclusion of trolls, many of whom are associated with the right wing, which should not be confused with excluding the right wing itself.
For instance, intentional misgendering lies within the intersection of right-wing behaviour and trolling. Banning it is often (intentionally) construed as banning right-wing behaviour, when it's actually banning trolling.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 44.2 ms ] threadIt’s all very nicely written but the risk of committing oneself (as a user, as a developer, as a social/marketing person, etc) only to get surprised by what/how they generate profit from is just unsettling.
Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media and other websites as soon as they start requiring said verifications.
I truly don't what to expect from this trend.
I think the reality is that most social media platforms will inevitability create hyper-polarized audiences that do little more than generate content.
Instead the only process is to email an address that no one gets any response from for months on end. (or I guess consider taking bluesky to court, by what this seems to say. Kinda very unreasonable)
For instance, intentional misgendering lies within the intersection of right-wing behaviour and trolling. Banning it is often (intentionally) construed as banning right-wing behaviour, when it's actually banning trolling.