I found this here: https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdowsmith.bsky.social/post/3ma6wfldigs2g but it’s a screenshot from https://nitter.net/AaronRDay I couldn’t locate the original Tweet likely because it was posted far back or censored by Musk and I gave up scrolling.
It is very ironic but I felt it was worded well so that’s why I posted it.
These all seem like things that are PAR for the course in mainstream social media platforms and really just modern platforms in general. If they haven’t already left, they’re probably not going to, and there’s pretty much nothing anyone can do to make them.
Twitter is more egregious than even other big tech platforms and there are major competitors that don’t have these AI training terms of services like Bluesky.
Also some people are just slow to change or don’t get the news so we have to try everything we can.
BlueSky is neither “mainstream social media”, “big tech platforms”, or “major competitor”.
I agree that Bluesky isn’t a “big tech platform”, it’s not as big as I wish it were but I do think currently it’s the largest competitor that’s at-least mostly ethical or far better than the big tech platforms. They recently hit a 41 million user milestone. How can platforms can you name with greater than that many users that is not part of what is commonly considered to be “big tech” (Meta, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok)?
When BlueSky breaks a billion active users we can have a conversation about Big Tech because there’s no way they get there without enshittification.