Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

pls@lemmy.plaureano.nohost.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Bluesky has a lot more normies on it while mastodon is mostly early-adopter types. Mastodon, in my experience, is either very technical people (software engineers and other tech people) or very political people. Bluesky has normal people on it

  I checked out threads for a day and I liked it because the algorithm wasn’t jamming a bunch of outrage content down my throat but that’s the only thing I can say about it. Haven’t used it since then (deleted my entire meta account)

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  • MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Took me like a day on bluesky to find all the funny people. Never saw any funny people on mastodon. :-(

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The comedians don’t use it. Why would they, there isn’t that much of an audience there. Also I don’t think there’s even particularly political people on it for pretty much the same reason. All of the political commentators I follow either post on bluesky or post on both platforms, somewhat eliminating the need for Masterdon at all (assuming that’s the kind of content you want to follow).

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• anachronology@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  At least Bluesky is a public benefit corporation, so they at least have to consider the public good in their decision-making and not just profit. May not be much, but it’s a start.

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  • tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What like OpenAI?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      OpenAI was always set up in a stupid way though. It was always for profit business that owned a charity, so there was always this potential to go into the “for-profit exclusively” direction.

      If you look at news articles from a few years ago even back then there were people saying that the name isn’t really appropriate. GPT has never been open source at any point.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    May not be much, but it’s a start.

    Actually, when you tell people something is a start but it is actually a false start that doesn’t deliver on the fundamental promises at all, it is much worse than having a much slower start…

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How is that regulated?

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