Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations

nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I could see that improving the experience.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It always starts that way. But the tighter reliance on their control only leads one place.

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    • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This

      They are not focusing on making it easier for more people to run alternate nodes/indexers

      They are focusing on enshittification

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They are focusing on enshittification

        It is what they want - for them it is a “feature” to exist surely inside of their echo chambers. MANY Lemmy instances - hexbear.net and Lemmy.ml to name just a couple - are the same, banning people who even remotely disagree with them.

        Profit-seeking is not the only cause of enshittification.

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    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not here to tell you that their motives are pure. But I don’t see how a dislike button or social proximity are enshittification. And I don’t see how it’s tighter reliance on their control.

      Is Lemmy having the ability to downvote enshittification? That’s what drew me to Reddit and now to Lemmy. It pushes less useful/interesting content down and brings better content to the front (generally)

      Is showing you posts from people connected to people connected to you enshittification? That’s a feature I genuinely like about LinkedIn. I’ve seen posts from people I know but wasn’t connected to yet. I’ve seen pictures from events I attended but uploaded but people I don’t know personally.

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      • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Did you read it? They’re building an algorithm to control what you see.

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