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- technology@lemmy.world
- bluesky@lemmy.ml
Less than 30 days ago article, hope thats ok. It will be interesting to see the effects of the myriad of websites that are de-listing twitter.
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Sorry to rain on the parade, but… it went back up 😞
Ah, glad to see we’re trading the platform that Jack Dorsey previously sold to a fascist for an obscene sum of money for the platform that Jack Dorsey hasn’t yet sold to a fascist for an obscene sum of money.
I’m so deeply disappointed that Mastadon isn’t taking a larger share of traffic.
@xmunk @mesamunefire I also dislike Jack Dorsey, but it’s false to say that “he sold twitter”.
He did not own 50% or more of the companies shares, so he couldn’t make that decision by himself.
Additionally, as I just learned from wikipedia, he had already resigned as CEO a year before the saledeleted by creator
I’m fine with it. We don’t need to be the most popular, we just need to be there consistently.
People continue to come over slowly and then they keep engaging. It’s not fizzing out so it’s been very nice.
I dint care how big we are but its still very disheartening how much critical thinking skills people lack.
Do they really believe it will be better or do they just not care?
I’d guess they don’t care enough. If bsky enshittifies they will just find something else, same as now, but until then they can just ride it out with little to no hassle.
It’s just more convenient it seems to not care about instances
Not for everyone. And so for now, I’m confident in the growth of the fediverse in many directions. I’ve been advocating for the Fediverse since I left reddit, after 12 years, because Meta products had become so toxic. I’ve had more people than ever before ask me about Pixelfed last week, two of them, IG refugees. Oh and one who’d been on before, and returned to Pixelfed. THREE!!!
Dorsey sold it to the public, and Musk bought it from the public.
I’m so deeply disappointed that Mastadon isn’t taking a larger share of traffic.
It’s got George Takei. What more do we need?
Should note that Jack Dorsey is not part of Bluesky anymore. He left a little while ago
Did he fully divest any decision making powe and financial interests? Or just the decision making power?
At least it will be really funny if Bluesky just becomes the new Twitter and Musk’s 55B loses most of its value
Thats what I bet will happen. Elon is the “fellow kids” meme in a nutshell. He bought an entire platform to look cool, only to make the platform itself stale and broken. I feel bad for the employees that will have that on their resume (or laid off) but what can you do?
At least blue sky has the bridge. It kinda works. I will still be using mastodon/Gotosocial but to others they can use whatever platform they want to talk to me. Including family.
Eugen has admitted, in some ways, that he’s introverted and perhaps didn’t have the skills to create the publicity needed to have it grab general public attention. While I have concerns that the new non-profit will become a Mozilla type entity with too much overhead, hopefully some useful overhead can be put into better marketing the product.
Follow the philosophy of the fediverse and block early block often. From what little I’ve seen at bluesky, the magas get SOOOOO angry when people just block without engaging. It’s to the point where some of them have dumb shit in their bio like ‘a block is a win to me’ to try to bugs-bunny you into not blocking them.
The pool at twitter is reaching the point where they only have other magas to argue with and they are desperate for attention by the time they get to bluesky.
Yes, this is important. Block as soon as possible, don’t interact.
Bluesky also has nice user provided block-lists, so you can block lots of accounts right away as soon as you sign up.
Tipping point could be very soon.
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election
My hope is that with some of the very large subs banned twitter, like r/nba, that will have a noticeable effect on engagement and reporters will move to bsky or anywhere else.
I realize this is unlikely to happen, but a man can dream.
This isn’t actual proof of anything though. This is a publicity stunt by someone trying to promote this Eliza project, which has nothing to do with X because actual X code used for the described nefarious purposes wouldn’t be on a public GitHub repository. More importantly, someone who “can’t sleep at night” due to their involvement in election interference wouldn’t link to the tool they used to do it and instructions on how to use it.
Having a .json “character file” for a Trump chatbot filled with Trump rhetoric is not proof of anything the writer is claiming. Anyone could do that, including LLMs.
I’m not saying similar technologies/tactics weren’t actually used over the last few years, in fact, I strongly believe they were. All I’m saying is that this article is nothing but bait. Fact-checking is more important than ever now.
If you look at the second example you’ll see Marc andreessen mentioned. He’s a follower of Curtis yarvins dark enlightenment. Also works closely with Elon.
https://www.ft.com/content/1f14799f-69a1-41cb-bf7f-6f16f9ad4a8b
That is absolutely true, but the substack post as it stands provides no proof of the events it describes. Like I said, I’m not claiming that interference didn’t happen, I’m not even claiming it didn’t happen almost exactly the way the post describes, but none of it is verifiable through the provided “source”, which is just a public GitHub repo.
Very odd though, no? Why would they use a Trump bot as the public example?
We already have hard proof for most of the other stuff, I guess someone could’ve seen the example and fabricated the article based on our shared knowledge. But I think that falls into the ‘nothing ever happens’ box
Very odd though, no? Why would they use a Trump bot as the public example?
If I wanted to assume bad faith, and at this point I will every time a claim is made with no verifiable proof, I could very easily interpret that post and the presence of a Trump character file as an advertisement basically telling potential users “hey look, this is what he used to steal the election, it’s possible, it’s simple, it’s relatively cheap and you can do it too.” And if you look through the GitHub Issues for the project you’ll see that quite a few people are already currently using it for who knows what purposes.
As someone who works in the field I also believe there are several red flags in the way the article is written and a bunch of contradictions. For example, “hiding crumbs in the code” would generally imply something slightly more sophisticated than a public file that the author himself tells you how to find in the repository with even a screenshot of it.
The main issue for me though is that it is highly unlikely that the owner of X would need to use an external tool that establishes a finicky integration with X from the outside to generate fake content when he obviously has control over the internal private code and data of X itself. It’s beyond naive to think that if they wanted to create fake accounts, fake posts or manipulate the content users see, they would need this Eliza thing to do it effectively. This tool is clearly aimed at people who don’t own the platforms they intend to use it on.
Ultimately though, while I don’t believe this source and story are to be trusted, I still think everyone should know that tools like this actually exist and that something resembling the proposed narrative is extremely plausible regardless.
Look who is behind Eliza too. A crackpot who flipped to MAGA to accelerate us to ‘network states’. More info here
As someone who works in the field I also believe there are several red flags in the way the article is written and a bunch of contradictions. For example, “hiding crumbs in the code” would generally imply something slightly more sophisticated than a public file that the author himself tells you how to find in the repository with even a screenshot of it.
Maybe there is, doesn’t seem like anyone else is bothering to look.
The main issue for me though is that it is highly unlikely that the owner of X would need to use an external tool that establishes a finicky integration with X from the outside to generate fake content when he obviously has control over the internal private code and data of X itself. It’s beyond naive to think that if they wanted to create fake accounts, fake posts or manipulate the content users see, they would need this Eliza thing to do it effectively. This tool is clearly aimed at people who don’t own the platforms they intend to use it on.
Could still acces that through the API all the same? Sure there’s plenty of other frameworks they use they didnt build themselves.
