About 10 days ago Bluesky proudly announced it got 100m investment, largely from cryptobros:https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888

About 10 days ago Bluesky proudly announced it got 100m investment, largely from cryptobros:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

Today they are proudly announcing an "AI product" that relies on scraping your posts.

#Bluesky #AI

[gedvondur@hulvr.com]

@rysiek Equally unsurprising and disappointing.

In the end, it doesn't matter. Bluesky was going to go through the enshittification cycle. They just used today's most obvious and braindead hype to begin enshittifying.

Fuck'em with a cactus.

[requiem@masto.hackers.town]

@rysiek even Lucy is jealous of their balls.

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@rysiek
This IMO has nothing to do with AI. This is a takeover. US #nazi wants to control all media. Bought the next outlet cheap. Likely to implement Thiel's idea of enemies talking not to each other but to the garbage generator.

“With incoming media acquisitions we finally will be in charge of what Americans see, hear, and read - to fend off both socialistic and dei threats to our Republic." (IIRC from some HF Vought monologs 2018?).

[maddad@mastodon.world]

@rysiek

We are onto them now.
#noai #noindex #nobots

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@ohir @rysiek AI is the tool they're using to do it. It's not a goal on its own, but it's already helped the fascists a lot by making web search useless, and by making it so we can never be sure the person we're talking to online is a real person. And, like "targeted ads", it also supplies ample pretense for mass surveillance. I wouldn't go so far as to say this has nothing to do with AI, but you're absolutely right with regards to what it's really about.

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@rysiek FFS Blue Sky is turning into Xitter

[watarutenkawa_1@social.vivaldi.net]

@Powerfromspace1 @rysiek
What I disliked about Bluesky was all the people posting about how much they hate Twitter. I hope Mastodon does not get that way about Bluesky. Let's just be ourselves, doing what we do best, and not get so obsessed about other platforms.

[bitanath@mastodon.social]

@rysiek Mastodon is a true beacon of light in a dark world

[iblame@kolektiva.social]

@rysiek @UnicornJax