Mastodon Migration4d ago

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
Show threadMaddad ☑️4d ago

@mastodonmigration

Which mastodon account (s) are scraping?

Show threadPaul Chambers🚧4d 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

Show threadChad 4d ago
@paul @maddad @mastodonmigration Appreciate it!
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧4d 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

Show threadMastodon Migration4d ago

@paul @chad @maddad

Which amounts to "opt-out" for something that if it exists at all really should be "opt-in."

Show threadDon't Sweat The Technique ✊
@mastodonmigration
Absolutely. Fuck those AI grifters. Why should anyone have to expend bio characters to say no to thieving?
@paul @chad @maddad
Mar 30 at 6:42amWeb