2024-11-26
Good. But, also: This stuff costs money and people who give you money want even more money in return and, well, forget it Jake. I hope to like this site as much as I do now in two years. But I doubt I will. bsky.app/profile/case... [embedded post]
Bloomberg
Bluesky says it is working to comply with EU rules and is consulting with its lawyers, after the bloc accused the social network of flouting its regulations
Bluesky said it's working to comply with European Union rules after the bloc accused the fast-growing social media platform of flouting its digital regulations.
Good. But, also: This stuff costs money and people who give you money want even more money in return and, well, forget it Jake. I hope to like this site as much as I do now in two years. But I doubt I will. bsky.app/profile/case... [embedded post]
Platformer
A look at Bluesky's moderation efforts as its growth surges; Bluesky plans to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100
www.platformer.news/bluesky- grow... Alex Stamos / @stamos.org : 1) Many underestimate the investment the PRC has put into influencing the US social media sphere. — 2) The destru...
2023-09-27
What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post]
Bloomberg
The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence
2023-08-01
Co-trust and safety lead with Musk. Sure. You betcha. I'm reminded of former Yankees minority owner John McMullen's comment on Steinbrenner. “When you're George's silent partner, you really learn the meaning of silence.” https://bsky.app/... [embedded post]
New York Times
Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”
The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
Co-trust and safety lead with Musk. Sure. You betcha. I'm reminded of former Yankees minority owner John McMullen's comment on Steinbrenner. “When you're George's silent partner, you really learn the meaning of silence.” https://bsky.app/... [embedded post]
Reuters
X says Elon Musk will lead product and engineering teams, CEO Linda Yaccarino will lead teams including legal and sales, and both will oversee trust and safety
“U.S. ad revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier.” Michael Love / @elkmovie@mastodon.social : @Techmem...
2023-07-23
“What Bluesky corporate has presented up to this point is communication that could have been generated by ChatGPT—the vague, anodyne language in its vanishingly rare public statements on the matter verge on the embarrassing.” https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically
Moderating a site isn't easy—just ask Elon. But Bluesky and Reddit are contrasting examples of how not to do it.