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

• 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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      • ksigley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Happy cake day.

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      • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I did read it. Here’s the company post that the article references and links to.

        The social proximity thing is about replies to posts. Since replies are often a mix of people I follow and people I don’t, I think it could be helpful to prioritize replies from people who are connected to those I already follow.

        They say the dislike button will apply to “Discover and other feeds” which is a little less relevant to me because I don’t use discover. Maybe I’d check it out more if it was better.

        It would still be important to me that I have my unfiltered feed of posts by everyone I follow in chronological order. The post by Bluesky doesn’t indicate they’re changing that.

        Even so, if they were actually altering that feed, my understanding is that you can switch to a different front end which uses whatever ordering/display logic you prefer. Catch of course being someone has to have created and maintained such a front end, and many people will just stick with the default option.

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