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quectophoton ◴[] No.42151008[source]
Bluesky looks promising. In my bubble it seems like a lot of artists have been moving to it after some Xitter fiasco with AI training or whatnot (idk, I don't keep up with those news).

But, this:

> Radically open

> I think some might be surprised to learn how open Bluesky is. It’s trivially easy to grab an export of any user’s data. It’s also a core assumption of the service that all the data (aside from out-of-protocol stuff like DMs) is completely open.

I'm still skeptical of Bluesky having "won" until the average user is completely aware of things like this. I fully expect that there will be some drama about this openness at some point in the future.

When this happens, we'll see if people go back to Twitter again (how many times has it been already?); or if they embrace this new social network where your art and posts can be scraped waaaaaay more easily than in Twitter, so they're probably more likely to be used for AI training anyway.

Until conversations about these topics happen between non-tech users, I'm mostly just watching how the situation evolves.

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1. KaiserPro ◴[] No.42154365[source]
Saying bluesky has won seems a bit pre-emptive, especially as its less than 2% the size of threads.
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2. Nemo_bis ◴[] No.42155518[source]
Yes. https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/b... stands though there were a few more waves since (starting with the Brazil situation): https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...