Bluesky is experimenting with a dislike button and changes to replies as a way to improve the quality of interactions on its platform.
Corporate centralized platform cosplaying as decentralized begins inevitable enshittification
I don’t know, I could see that improving the experience.
It always starts that way. But the tighter reliance on their control only leads one place.
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They are not focusing on making it easier for more people to run alternate nodes/indexers
They are focusing on enshittification
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.
Did you read it? They’re building an algorithm to control what you see.
Happy cake day.
