For now
…at the moment
The API is so cheap someone is going to do it anyways…
“we promise ;)”
Yeah, I remember when Reddit promised similar things…
Nah, first you gotta get comfortable for a couple of years.
It’s basically pig butchering for social networks.
To be fair, “they” could probably train AI on Lemmy data, they just won’t ask for permission and won’t be charged for it
AI is 100% being trained using Lemmy.
Who owns this? Another insane rich, right wing techie?
They also said it was decentralized which is not true.
I don’t believe this.
well there’s a protocol but everyone is on the main one, i don’t think theres even a non personal instance.
Yeah, I looked into it and the backend is proprietary, so the central owner can restrict features. Like for instance independent instances can only have 10 users.
It’s “decentralised” except only in extremely limited scope, the code is centrally controlled and the network remains largely, functionally centralised.
They’re capitalising on the decentralised, federated buzz while doing it so poorly they’re setting up users to say “oh people tried decentralisation, it doesn’t work, look at Bluesky”.
If it’s not open source, it’s not decentralised.
…for now.
“Bluesky has not been offered enough money to scrape user data for AI”
Bluesky is VC backed. They’ll want to make money down the road, and they’ll definitely train AI soon if not already.
Maybe the VC’s are dying soon and they wanted to do something useful with their exorbitant wealth before they die
Lol
This seems like a clever way of saying they don’t have an AI team or plans so they have no use for the data.
Brilliant!
Yet
Well, it will train it’s AI on everyone else’s posts. Just not your posts.
Why is this taking off but not Mastadon?
It’s easier to use and has a recommendation algorithm.
Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you’ll have to make a decision on what instance you’re creating your account. With Bluesky there’s just Bluesky.
Yep. 100% this.
Bluesky has the hyper casual “barrier’” of entry that Twitter had
With bluesky ,the sign up has a section where you choose a server. The bluesky server is prefilled. Otherwise you add your own.
But not having that default option and instead having to have the user go research and figure out which server to use is an immediate turn off.
Better marketing
Which marketing and better how, exactly?
Can anyone please point me an example of Bluesky marketing that isn’t word of mouth or large-event headlines on the news?
no, this place only circle jerks about the fediverse blindly and hates anything with a modicum of attachment to reality.
I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.
If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.
there’s the catch: it’s for people. not robots, not billionaires
Makes no difference to me.
