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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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591 points consumer451 | 12 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 1.233s | source | bottom
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null0pointer ◴[17 Nov 24 10:05 UTC] No.42163194[source]▶
A lot of commenters here are having their minds blown by this. And while I also love this I get the sense that many others here are maybe too young to remember that this kind of open access to data used to exist for lots websites. It inspired companion sites and loads of creativity. I find it tragic really, what the internet has become. I hope federated, and even more-so p2p, protocols take significant foothold on the internet and help revive this spirit of the web. The corpo-web is so fucking boring.
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1. AI_beffr ◴[17 Nov 24 15:51 UTC] No.42164795[source]▶
BS is a cynical data-grab and will lock down and back-stab its users as soon as it can do so and be competitive.
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2. ericjmorey ◴[17 Nov 24 16:12 UTC] No.42164929[source]▶
I'm thinking that it's a cynical way to put all the data on an open network rather than a gated and paywalled one. As far as I can tell, Bluesky is still entirely funded by Twitter and that will eventually be cut off. They're betting on the Google/Mozilla type relationship to be maintained for now. They need to make the indexing service easier to replicate before that happens or the network will collapse when funds dry up.
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3. jazzyjackson ◴[17 Nov 24 16:35 UTC] No.42165065[source]▶
They have nothing to do with Twitter anymore. Last round was funded by Blockchain Capital

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

4. davidcbc ◴[17 Nov 24 17:47 UTC] No.42165582[source]▶
Even if true, which I'm skeptical of, social media sites don't have to be permanent. It's no different from any other service being enshittified, just use it until it sucks and then stop.
5. threeseed ◴[17 Nov 24 22:01 UTC] No.42167710[source]▶
As opposed to X, which told users it would be using their content to train Grok.

No matter which way you spin it, Bluesky is significantly better than X.

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6. AI_beffr ◴[17 Nov 24 22:13 UTC] No.42167830[source]▶
except on X you can actually say what you think.

https://x.com/search?q=bluesky%20banned&src=typed_query&f=to...

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7. andelink ◴[18 Nov 24 03:43 UTC] No.42169546{3}[source]▶
I can't even view that link without logging in
8. blitzar ◴[18 Nov 24 08:55 UTC] No.42170833[source]▶
Tweets seem a truly terrible way to train Ai.
9. wrboyce ◴[18 Nov 24 12:53 UTC] No.42171912{3}[source]▶
https://x.com/elonjet

…weird

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10. AI_beffr ◴[18 Nov 24 21:36 UTC] No.42177358{4}[source]▶
not really. its stalking. it poses a direct threat to someones safety. and people arent even supposed to have that information under the current rules... thats why its only possible to get his jets location by crowd-sourcing it. anonymity for high profile passengers is a legitimate concern, enough for the FAA to bake it into how these flights are tracked. soon this loophole will be closed and then what will you point to? how could you seriously compare this to being banned for saying something that is politically incorrect?
11. teddyfrozevelt ◴[18 Nov 24 22:09 UTC] No.42177666{3}[source]▶
you can't even say "cis" on twitter without the tweet getting hidden
12. inpdx ◴[19 Nov 24 05:20 UTC] No.42180291{3}[source]▶
Elon just posted a Tweet that if you post pictures of food you can get banned. Food. It's run at the caprice of a thin-skinned Napoleon at this point.