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

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596 points consumer451 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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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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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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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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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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wrboyce ◴[18 Nov 24 12:53 UTC] No.42171912[source]▶
https://x.com/elonjet

…weird

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1. AI_beffr ◴[18 Nov 24 21:36 UTC] No.42177358[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?