The fact that there are real people unironically longing for a version of the website ran by communist authoritarians, and are trying to flock to places that are more restricted, and less free, is a real testament to the severity of the brainwashing that's taken place over the years.
That is because it's technically an activitypub instance based on... maybe mastodon? So bsky.social is the instance name. But they don't really federate last I checked.
I'm kinda glad there's a social media site dedicated almost exclusively to mentally ill people with the market of "we fucking suck and hate you." I think most places would be improved with a literal retard containment zone.
The funny thing is it really didn't change anything. As long as your account isn't flagged for NSFW content any dipshit could just log out of twitter and see your profile.
It's not that weird of a policy. A lot of businesses have employee policies that grant the employer rights to intellectual property you created while under their employment. If people are getting ad payouts from Twitter now, it's not weird for them to start adopting practices from other businesses. Even minimum wage shit work like Home Depot has this clause in their employment contract.
This makes an interesting question, how do they filter out the (new) CSAM content from their AI then? Reddit has janjans actively sweeping, but X has had some CSAM groups that went under the radar forever for being busted.
I never liked Twitters Block System in the first place. I sometimes get blocked by people before I even know who they were and some of them were artists I wanted to support. However, the next rule that goes into effect is another reason people have been mass migrating to Bluesky. Apparently Elon Musk has been entitled to use images of other people's works in his AI system. It goes in effect on November 15.
This will likely cause a migration of a lot of users to another platform, probably blue-sky. Kinda reminds me when Tumblr, the site mostly known for hosting art, started implementing rules against NSFW content. If that managed to kill (Or at the very least severely cripple) the artist community over there, I don't doubt for a second that feeding their work into the Grok AI without the option of opting out of it won't cause a mass exodus of twitter artists.
It literally is just a noise filter that makes your art look worse. If you use it on pixel art, it becomes so ugly it's not worth posting. If people want to prevent their art from being trained on AI, the only way they can prevent it is to not post it online at all.
They don't filter it out. With the amount of images they're harvesting, they can't manually go through every single image used. The system might flag sussy shit like child porn but it might also not.
They either remind people it exists or say they're migrating buuuuut then they realize their audience isn't gonna move so they put out a "but I'll still post stuff here though" cope tweet
The only account I miss or honestly am even is aware is gone is the artist Michael Whelan, most well known for doing book covers. He has switched to Bluesky and has (unfortunately) stuck to his guns. I actually set up an account on Bluesky solely to follow him, but I can't honestly be assed to use it.
So he's much more principled than the other tards that go back to twitter eventually. Very respectable.
It's meant to imitate the look of Mastodon, except whereas Mastodon is a collection of federated instances of the same application Bluesky is just window dressing. All you have to do to change the ".bsky.social" thing on your handle is add a TXT record to the DNS zone file of a domain you own. Your Bluesky handle will then start showing ".niggerfaggot.cocks" at the end of your name instead of the default. It does nothing.
