Russian influence operations expand to BlueSky

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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[seaqueue@lemmy.world]

[stupidmanager@lemmy.world]

Oh, good. I was worried we might actually get to keep a platform free of garbage. Whew. Can’t wait for all those conspiracy nuts to join in too!

/s

Seriously, if someone would just off Putin, that’d be great. Let Russia fall into a little civil war as smaller leaders fight amongst themselves for the scraps.

[pixelatedsaturn@lemmy.world]

Too many nukes

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

At least this anti-Ukrainian spam seems to get flagged as such in my polish corner of Bluesky. Wondering how long that will last and if we’ll see Jack Dorsey doing fascist salutes on stage too.

[openstars@piefed.social]

I am not on that platform but I'll offer a:

[uberdroog@lemmy.world]

Bots. Bots EVERYWHERE

[bassomitron@lemmy.world]

As far as I know, Jack Dorsey left Bluesky almost a year ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twiiter-nostr-interview-2024-5

His interview on the topic: https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

I have to somewhat agree with him that Bluesky is still very much susceptible to turning into Twitter all over again. Right now, it definitely feels like Twitter in its infancy but with all the modern QoL features we expect to have nowadays. Which is nice, of course. Twitter didn't used to be such a toxic shithole of bots and disinformation, it used to be a powerful communication tool for activism and journalists covering rapidly evolving events live.

However, the endgame of such platforms is inevitable. Higher user saturation means higher operating costs, which then usually means the company has a higher reliance on advertising, which then leads to more algorithms and data mining for targeted ads, which then leads to easier mass political manipulation campaigns.

I'm not sure if it's actually possible to attract mass audience without an algorithm driven model. Mastodon tried and it's had some moderate success, but because it's completely devoid of algorithms, users have a harder time discovering people/accounts/mindless entertainment. That's the only reason I can think of as to why Bluesky took off so much faster.

[land@lemmy.ml]

The amount of bots on that sh*tty platform is insane. I left it for Mastodon.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

Wouldn’t want to be getting any criticism in your feed of an authoritarian far-right dictatorship, now would we? Can’t have these tankies calling for elections or banning Nazi symbols!

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

I wonder if they'll ever notice this place. Like. Before a big election or something.

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

[moe90@feddit.nl]

you know public bluesky blocklist is very effective to counter those kind of thing right?

[moe90@feddit.nl]

it is normal because the platform is growing and then BSKY public blocklist will be bigger to counter this.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

It’s funny that I can interpret this in every way possible. Yes, I prefer to be able to be critical of US or Russia on my social media without getting downranked. Yes, I’m for free elections in Belarus. I’d be for banning nazi symbols but they’re banned where I live already.

[evotech@lemmy.world]

That's how you know you've made it in social media

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

Haven’t you heard? When Ukrainians declare themselves Nazis, cover themselves in Nazi patches, and refuse to hold elections, it’s “complicated” and we’re not allowed to talk about it.

[negativenull@lemmy.world]

[merde@sh.itjust.works]

apparently, after a recent thread on lemmy and some reading, dorsey left bluesky some time ago