To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is sent to a third party for AI labeling.
BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they can use content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.
Update: https://meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper/110652053858910840
@FluffyDeveloper oh wait what? That's... not good!
Tbh, I still don't really know what BlueSky is, but I've seen that name often.
@SteffoSpieler It's another social media network created by the same people who backed Twitter and Nostr. Instead of going with ActivityPub however, they decided to make their own VC-backed protocol called AT.
The protocol itself is not too bad, but its controlled by private companies and BlueSky has decided to basically avoid moderation and offload everything to AI labelling.
In short: it's decentralised Twitter with venture capitalists trying to control their own fediverse :/
@FluffyDeveloper
that is really Shity so instead of integrating activity pub they made their own protocol to control their own fediverse that's not really a fediverse at that point that's more of a blue sky verse lol
but since the code is open source can somebody just yank it and just integrate activity pub and make a better site?
@epicEaston197 Yep!
And instead of doing actual moderation they just use AI to label content and leave users to fend for themselves.
At that point you might as well use ActivityPub with Mastodon, Calckey, or other. Even removing the AI labeling from other instances (if they are ever allowed) may not do much because that content will eventually make its way into the original main instance.
@FluffyDeveloper
okay but I wanna say this again as a separate reply is it possible to yank thesaurus code since it's "open source" could this mean that we can just get rid of the protocol and replace it with activity pub and just make a better site for the fediverse?
Similar to how Calckey is a fork of Misskey?
@Rhube @FluffyDeveloper @SteffoSpieler their current position is that they’re exploring blocking but are concerned about the “cost” (for whatever metric they’re using as a cost function) of blocking “at scale”.
Because apparently “kick off the harassers everyone blocks” is too much to ask.
@mic @PennyOaken @Rhube @FluffyDeveloper @SteffoSpieler
no, they didn't forget.
Distracted angry plebes fighting amongst themselves is -the- primary way exploitative pieces of garbage manage to get rich.
The "Golden Rule" of all exploitative assholes from pickpockets to VC bros is simple: Distract, Divide and Conquer
@FluffyDeveloper @SteffoSpieler they saw a demand for decentralized social media services, and wanted to make their own corporate spin of it to take advantage of consumers long term?
very sickening.
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