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How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?

A tale of two social networks.

Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.

Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

TechCrunch

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Maddad ☑️20h ago

@mastodonmigration

Which mastodon account (s) are scraping?

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Paul Chambers🚧19h ago

RE: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116296743458567673

@maddad [email protected] was the scraper. Search for post "alpaca.gold" to find posts about the issue.

@mastodonmigration

cc: @chad

This post has the link to the LLM announcement post in it: https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116229243453108157

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Chad

19h ago

@paul @maddad @mastodonmigration Appreciate it!

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Paul Chambers🚧18h ago

@chad For what it is worth, the dev of that AI timeline tool says it now supports several ways to stop it.

Zeitgeist now:
* respects the `noindex` preference if set on your account
* respects #noindex or #nobots if those are in your bio
* sends a unique user-agent ("Zeitgeist/1.0") if you want to block the client entirely.

Edit to add: It also says it respects the #noai tag in profile bios as of yesterday:
https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057

@maddad @mastodonmigration

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Maddad ☑️18h ago

@paul @chad @mastodonmigration

I was just there reading that and I set the #noindex and #nobots in my bio now.

How could he make that account so you can't just block it?

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Paul Chambers🚧17h ago

@maddad I replied to your other comment re blocking. Not sure what issue is causing you that. You should be able to block the account like any other account

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Maddad ☑️17h ago

@paul

Thats what I thought too. There is no block option when I try to block it

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Paul Chambers🚧

@maddad Just to clarify, There is no such fediverse account for anything zeitgeist.blue. The account to block is the [email protected] account, if that is the issue.