How is BlueSky any different from other major social media platforms? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by meep_launcher@lemm.ee to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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So I thought that BlueSky was set up just like Lemmy in that it was fully decentralized into a sort of "terrorist cell" structure that wasn't focused on profits, but then found out that BlueSky has a CEO. Since this is a business, what makes BlueSky fundamentally different from Twitter or Instagram?

I feel like so long as a social media platform exists through monetization (in some form or another private companies need to make money), we are ultimately replacing one dictator with another.

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[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

In relation to the second point, I am assuming the policy is opposing intentional or willful sharing of data for AI usage, as there already datasets composed of BlueSky posts out in the wild[0].

[0] https://www.404media.co/bluesky-posts-machine-learning-ai-datasets-hugging-face/

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Correct. They are clear in that link as well that BlueSky themselves will not do anything to harvest and/or monetize data for AI. But there’s really no way to stop bad faith actors from crawling any perceivable content for malicious purposes.

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