Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and

This too heading towards enshittification ?

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    “I think the weakness with this and [Creative Commons’] similar proposal for ‘preference signals’ is that they rely on scrapers to respect these signals out of some desire to be good actors,” White continued. “We’ve already seen some of these companies blow right past robots.txt or pirate material to scrape.”

    There’s the problem. Anything that’s publicly available on the internet either has already been scrapped, or will be scrapped, even Lemmy.

  • Rekall Incorporated@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    That is why American-run commercial social networks are inherently not viable if you care about user focus. Any rational adult (of any nationality, from US to Botswana) can make their own conclusions regarding US-run commercial social networks over the past ~20 years.

    I deleted Twitter a while ago and switched to Mastodon, I did not move to Bluesky when it started getting big exactly because I knew theor initial user-focus was a ruse (and their federation architecture seemed top heavy).

    • Zenodyne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Do you have any suggestions for starting out on Mastodon? I know for a fact that I won’t be able to get my friends to move there, and that’s whatever, I guess. I’m not against meeting new people and would love to give it a spin.

      • Rekall Incorporated@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I mostly follow big accounts and don’t that much with folks (outside of a niche hobby account that I am trying to slowly grow).

        Best option seems to be to subscribe/browse hashtags that pique your interest. Eventually you’ll find people who regularly post/boost interesting content and users.

    • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Oh please, capitalism is not better in other countries. Commercial entities are shit regardless of their location.

      • Rekall Incorporated@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I like to distinguish between ideological, Friedmanite capitalism, which I call big C Capitalism and broader concepts such as trade, competition, new commercial ideas, which I call small c capitalism.

        Big C Capitalism is more of an oligarch-promoted, authoritarian ideology with clear fascistsa tendencies (see Friedman’s statement that “free markets” take precedent over democratic governance).

        Small c capitalism is more a quality of human civilization and its implementation reflects social and cultural developments.

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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          Capitalism is private ownership of production. That is indefensible regardless of how much you try to seperate the worst elements of capitalism from its root.