Bluesky Hits 40 Million Users, Introduces 'Dislikes' Beta (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/31/231232/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/
> With the "dislikes" beta rolling out soon, Bluesky will take into account the new signal to improve user personalization. As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
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> The company explained the changes are designed to make Bluesky a place for more "fun, genuine, and respectful exchanges" -- an edict that follows a month of unrest on the platform as some users again criticized the platform over its moderation decisions. While Bluesky is designed as a decentralized network where users run their own moderation, some subset of Bluesky users want the platform itself to ban bad actors and controversial figures instead of leaving it up to the users to block them. Bluesky, however, wants to focus more on the tools it provides users to control their own experience.
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3m4j4iy4oek2d
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/
Lying with the truth (Score:3, Insightful)
We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post. Why? Because humans are dumb, therefore lies can be used to mislead them. Here's an example: Homicides in Ireland, Italy, Germany and even some US cities like San Francisco are at historic lows. However if you were on X you would think the opposite. Why? Because every time there's a murder they spread it around with various narratives and memes. For example, a woman was horrifically murdered by a black person on a train. Obviously the right wing used it as a excuse to say "we should't live around blacks" .. However it's not like whites don't do the same. One second of googling can find instances of a white person murdering a woman on a subway (for example the incident in 2019). And also forget the fact that millions of blacks and whites ride the train every day with zero incidents .. so I mean the probability of any specific person being in such danger is nearly zero. You're much more likely to be hit by lightning. And when there isn't a recent one they rehash old ones. Or they find a video of a migrant stealing flowers from a cemetery to state how depraved migrants are. However if you google or check YouTube you can see many instances of non-migrants doing the same. End result: you fear every migrant even though many pose no danger. It's like people are afraid of flying, even though plane crashes are super rare .. meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of serious car accidents every year with 40,000 fatalities. Meanwhile people are afraid to step on an airplane thinking it might crash. I was on an airplane next to me and there was turbulence and the passenger next to was so scared she dug into my arm and nearly drew blood. I guess in that sense flying can be dangerous if you're next to someone so misinformed when there's turbulence. Anyway, what was I talking about .. oh yeah lying with the truth .. you can be successful at advancing any agenda if you repeatedly cherry-pick some facts that suit your narrative and there are enough people who have an innate lack of fact-checking ability or the sense to understand things within context.
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> We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post. Why? Because humans are dumb, therefore lies can be used to mislead them.
Fact-checking from a technology that's only [1]slightly more accurate [gizmodo.com] than a coin toss. That's a good one! I guess you forgot most AI "smarts" are based on the media is consumes indiscriminately from the Internet. So if it reads lies often enough, like a human it will believe them, too.
[1] https://gizmodo.com/ai-assistants-get-news-wrong-45-of-the-time-study-finds-2000676069
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> We need automatic AI fact checking and context providing of every post.
That sounds like a good task for AI -- oh, wait ...
Re: Lying with the truth (Score:2)
> We need automatic AI fact checking
Are you on crack?
The hellgate shall be opened (Score:2)
And I thought AI datacenters would be the final straw to break civilization's back.
Cue the echo chamber! (Score:3, Informative)
Another place for people to curate their warm, soft bubbles of bias reinforcement.
oooo another echo chamber... (Score:4, Insightful)
Now you can restrict what you want to see before ever looking, so there is no chance of seeing anything new, or learning anything at all.
Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clones? (Score:3, Interesting)
[1]https://www.socialmediatoday.c... [socialmediatoday.com]
[1] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/bluesky-reaches-38-million-users-slowing-growth/757025/
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Because Elon Musk bought twitter. In many folks minds this has parallels to the biblical tale of Lucifer being an angel who fell from grace to become Satan.
Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.
The reality is somewhere in the middle.
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> The reality is somewhere in the middle.
No, it's all the way at the Lucifer end and if you think otherwise, then chances are you privately think the Nazis were just misunderstood.
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Actually if you hold that position you are probably a fascist with ideology nearly identical to the Nazi's who misunderstands them and calls yourself anti-fascist. ;) Luckily you are part of a dying infection that the world is slowly killing off.
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Lol
Re:Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clone (Score:5, Insightful)
> Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.
Tesla's battery tech advancements were minor and mostly not their doing. "His" moving space travel forwards would do better off without him at this point. His supporting Trump has done more damage than he's done good. The EV revolution might have happened slightly later without him, but Trump might well have not become president at all, so he's especially done more harm than good to America.
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clon (Score:1, Troll)
Before Tesla, and more on point, before Elon got involved in Tesla, there was zero indication of that. In fact what few electric cars there were in the oughts were either not production cars or were already discontinued (see GM EV-1.) Tesla was far from the only EV startup at the time either. Many came before and failed before, and have failed since. To this day, even the old players in the auto industry can't figure it out.
Why do you guys lose your shit and go into blatant denial every time somebody who do
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"His supporting Trump has done more damage than he's done good."
Awww, you are only triggered because you aren't just someone taking the pill, you are part of the infection.
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Your rhetoric is incredibly insightful. How can I join your cult?
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He was always a piece of shit. He always will be.
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He's a tech illiterate poser. Talks a lot about tech topics and science buzzword bingo, which got people excited in the early days, and it's part of his brand. But turns out his knowledge is only skin deep, he uses words without understanding what they mean, and he likes to take credit from underlings. He also lies a lot, and he's a deadbeat dad.
Look it up.
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Yup, he was always a human doing the best he could and when buying twitter and supporting Trump he was fighting evil. Bluesky is a dedicated echo chamber for evil though.
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He's still delivering exactly what he promised.
The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.
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.. it's like 5% of the internet dude. So website lots and lots of people used suddenly became Nazi heaven. No shit those of us who don't like Nazis would like some serious alternatives.
If you don't use the site or you only ever use it to look at the occasional post from a very specific person you might not notice the Nazis but if you read any of the comments they're basically everywhere along with pussy pics and bio bots cuz all the mods got fired and replaced with an AI written by teenagers.
One of
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I never used Twitter, but I saw the value. He took the closest thing we had to a public commons and made it the Nazi commons.
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Right. But most people would rather deal with Nazis over all of the fascists and racists who are flooding Bluesky. Lesser of two evils.
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I see more Nazis on Bluesky though.
Obviously I'm using that term in the liberal sense, but you know all about that based on your post. Crazy how even Jewish people and patriots use Twitter/X over Bluesky, even though it's apparently full Nazis lmfao.
Funny how "good journalism" had magically disappeared after Musk purchased it and introduced the ability to call out facts and bias. You ever think that it was always full of poor journalism prior to that? Maybe it's just that your echo chamber broke down. Kind
Re: Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clon (Score:2)
> .. it's like 5% of the internet dude. So website lots and lots of people used suddenly became Nazi heaven. No shit those of us who don't like Nazis would like some serious alternatives.
You should almost feel right at home then. The only difference between you and any other fascist is what you call yourself, which is quite superficial if you're being honest with yourself. Granted Nazis added the whole racial element on top, at least you guys will get along on economics and civil rights, even if you disagree about who gets them. You guys would talk up a storm about how limited free speech should be.