Mastodawn

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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DB 5d ago

@mastodonmigration So glad I never created an account over there. Just as fucked up as the bird site

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R.L. Dane

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4d ago

@lawyersgunsnmoney @mastodonmigration

I mean, I never quite got the appeal.

"Come join this site created by birdsite folks, it's like the birdsite before wannabe-square-mustache-guy took over!"

vs.

"Come join the fediverse, where we by and large care about each other and watch out for each other, and cooperate to build a better world."

"NAAAAAAH! Gimme the corporate crap, it's all I know, and I cannot grow as a person, or something."

Flippin' heck, people. 🤦‍♂️

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DHeadshot's Alt 4d ago

@rl_dane
The advantage the birdsite had was during that magical time when you could use it to complain about companies in public and they'd do something about it. That time ended on the bird in about 2021ish and never started on Bluesky, so both are pointless now...
@lawyersgunsnmoney @mastodonmigration

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R.L. Dane

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@ddlyh @lawyersgunsnmoney @mastodonmigration

Yeah, I remember that. :D