Bluesky Hits 40 Million Users, Introduces 'Dislikes' Beta (techcrunch.com) 56
Bluesky has surpassed 40 million users and is launching a "dislikes" beta to improve its personalization algorithms and reduce toxic content. TechCrunch reports: With the "dislikes" beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to improve user personalization. As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
The company explained the changes are designed to make Bluesky a place for more "fun, genuine, and respectful exchanges" -- an edict that follows a month of unrest on the platform as some users again criticized the platform over its moderation decisions. While Bluesky is designed as a decentralized network where users run their own moderation, some subset of Bluesky users want the platform itself to ban bad actors and controversial figures instead of leaving it up to the users to block them. Bluesky, however, wants to focus more on the tools it provides users to control their own experience.
The company explained the changes are designed to make Bluesky a place for more "fun, genuine, and respectful exchanges" -- an edict that follows a month of unrest on the platform as some users again criticized the platform over its moderation decisions. While Bluesky is designed as a decentralized network where users run their own moderation, some subset of Bluesky users want the platform itself to ban bad actors and controversial figures instead of leaving it up to the users to block them. Bluesky, however, wants to focus more on the tools it provides users to control their own experience.
Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clones? (Score:4, Insightful)
https://www.socialmediatoday.c... [socialmediatoday.com]
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Because Elon Musk bought twitter. In many folks minds this has parallels to the biblical tale of Lucifer being an angel who fell from grace to become Satan.
Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.
The reality is somewhere in the middle.
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The reality is somewhere in the middle.
No, it's all the way at the Lucifer end and if you think otherwise, then chances are you privately think the Nazis were just misunderstood.
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Lol
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Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.
Tesla's battery tech advancements were minor and mostly not their doing. "His" moving space travel forwards would do better off without him at this point. His supporting Trump has done more damage than he's done good. The EV revolution might have happened slightly later without him, but Trump might well have not become president at all, so he's especially done more harm than good to America.
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Who is losing their shit? lol
What I like best is that it says right in the definition of fascism that it's a hard right ideology, but he wants to call me a fascist when I'm so far left of left that he can't even see me from his comfy spot in the Reich. Every cuckservative accusation is a confession.
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clo (Score:2)
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Is that it. Fascism is right wing therefore right wing is fascism?
How is it that you can write, but not read?
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clo (Score:2)
No, hard-right is not part of the definition of facisim...
See: https://www.merriam-webster.co... [merriam-webster.com]
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What I like best is that it says right in the definition of fascism that it's a hard right ideology, but he wants to call me a fascist when I'm so far left of left
What I like best is that you admitted that the only difference between you and any other fascist comes down to a totally meaningless distinction. Other than that, you quack like a duck, walk like a duck, eat like a duck...
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Your rhetoric is incredibly insightful. How can I join your cult?
Re:Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clone (Score:4, Insightful)
He was always a piece of shit. He always will be.
Re:Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clone (Score:4, Interesting)
Look it up.
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He's still delivering exactly what he promised.
The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.
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He's still delivering exactly what he promised.
You mean a Trump presidency?
The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.
Oh, so you do mean a Trump presidency.
Obviously it's not the main point (Score:1)
Re:Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clone (Score:4, Interesting)
If you don't use the site or you only ever use it to look at the occasional post from a very specific person you might not notice the Nazis but if you read any of the comments they're basically everywhere along with pussy pics and bio bots cuz all the mods got fired and replaced with an AI written by teenagers.
One of the pillars of the internet basically got destroyed. People would like to see it get rebuilt. Personally I'd like to see the journalists the Twitter kicked off able to draw enough of an audience again that they can make a living some journalism besides the corporate slop.
Up until muskrat bought Twitter there was a ton of good journalism going on there. You probably did notice it because other outlets would pick up on it and report on it often without going on your way into properly credit the original source.
People do not understand what they've lost even after they've lost it sometimes
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I never used Twitter, but I saw the value. He took the closest thing we had to a public commons and made it the Nazi commons.
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I see more Nazis on Bluesky though.
Obviously I'm using that term in the liberal sense, but you know all about that based on your post. Crazy how even Jewish people and patriots use Twitter/X over Bluesky, even though it's apparently full Nazis lmfao.
Funny how "good journalism" had magically disappeared after Musk purchased it and introduced the ability to call out facts and bias. You ever think that it was always full of poor journalism prior to that? Maybe it's just that your echo chamber broke down. Kind
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Do you really mean "Nazis" as in the German Nazi Party supporters or as in general sense of fascist? If the latter, look at the current government of Israel, which is evidently fascist, no wonder Jewish people are active on the fascist Twitter/X platform.
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clon (Score:2)
Bluesky is adding "dislikes" to reinforce the echo chamber that is left-wing social media.
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https://www.socialmediatoday.c... [socialmediatoday.com]
Because the extremely polarizing Elon Musk bought Twitter with the intention of making it a having for the far right.
Perhaps the site survives is politics and meddling, but I don't think we've ever seen a major social media platform this vulnerable since MySpace.
We year about it because people are rightfully interested.
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clon (Score:2)
You should read your posts before hitting "submit", really.
Lying with the truth (Score:2, Insightful)
We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post. Why? Because humans are dumb, therefore lies can be used to mislead them. Here's an example: Homicides in Ireland, Italy, Germany and even some US cities like San Francisco are at historic lows. However if you were on X you would think the opposite. Why? Because every time there's a murder they spread it around with various narratives and memes. For example, a woman was horrifically murdered by a black person on a train. Obviously the r
Re:Lying with the truth (Score:5, Insightful)
We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post. Why? Because humans are dumb, therefore lies can be used to mislead them.
Fact-checking from a technology that's only slightly more accurate [gizmodo.com] than a coin toss. That's a good one! I guess you forgot most AI "smarts" are based on the media is consumes indiscriminately from the Internet. So if it reads lies often enough, like a human it will believe them, too.
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And of course also what will the fact checking system be directed to do? If you have it cite sources, which will be prioritized, and which prohibited?
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We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post.
That sounds like a good task for AI -- oh, wait ...
Re: Lying with the truth (Score:2)
We need automatic AI fact checking
Are you on crack?
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Spend some time on X and get back to me.
Re: Wow (Score:2)
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40 million pedophiles.
This story is about Bsky, not the Republican party. I swear there's three or four new maggot-supporting religious figures alone getting busted for CP or SA per week.
The hellgate shall be opened (Score:2)
Cue the echo chamber! (Score:3, Insightful)
oooo another echo chamber... (Score:4, Insightful)
Now you can restrict what you want to see before ever looking, so there is no chance of seeing anything new, or learning anything at all.
Why not expand the concept... (Score:3)
Re: Why not expand the concept... (Score:2)
We need better choices, not a new way to vote.
Re: Why not expand the concept... (Score:2)
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Back to algorithmic content, sigh (Score:2)
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At some point you have to go to the algorithmic feed if you want to find new stuff outside of your current bubble, so Bsky was never non-algorithmic. Feceboot allows you to show all posts by favorites, friends, or subscribed groups or pages, although it doesn't exactly make this easy to find. I use a specific address [facebook.com] when I go there to get this functionality. It even works on mobile! (In older times, their app copied everyone's contacts and then deleted them so you're a schmuck if you trust their app on you
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Mixed (Score:2)
On one hand a lot of the people I liked to follow on Twitter are now on Bsky.
On the other hand some of those people have been censored for saying things they could have said on feceboot without getting in trouble.
Also Bsky has had a pretty pathetic bug as long as I've been using it where uploaded images and also the thumbnailed images for links just show up as all black. This does not happen on any other site. It does not always happen on Bsky. It seems to be worse on some days than others. I can post two i
No funny? (Score:2)
Not surprised, though the story had potential.
I have a few thoughts, but not worth the effort for stale story... Wish I'd seen it much earlier. Makes me realize (more than usual?) that Slashdot's use of time is fundamentally incompatible with my once-a-day schedule.