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

@mastodonmigration

Which mastodon account (s) are scraping?

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

@paul

I left a message on the original thread and it looks like he's blocked me 😂

@maddad @mastodonmigration @chad

@monkeyben @paul @mastodonmigration @chad

Was he trying to twitterize Mastodon? 😂

@maddad

Some people don't get the ethos of Mastodon 😂

@paul @mastodonmigration @chad

@monkeyben From the website they run the app from for people who don't want to install the github application, this looks like the output.

IMO, he made a lot of enemies to gain obvious information and useless app. lol https://zeitgeist.blue/

The AI output of its timeline, "Overall vibe: The feed is running at a sustained high pitch of political dread and dark gallows humor — people are genuinely frightened about the Iran war, the economy, and democratic backsliding, but cope through sharp jokes, community solidarity, and the occasional Dolly Parton post.

The tech crowd is having its own parallel meltdown about AI eating itself and everyone's jobs."

@maddad @mastodonmigration @chad