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Elon Musk’s latest changes for X are driving more users away – not exactly a surprise, granted – and many of them are flocking to rival social media outlet Bluesky. So many made the switch, in fact, it led to Bluesky briefly going down due to the volume of incoming new users.

The central move initiated by X that made the headlines for driving migration away from Musk’s platform is a change to the way the ‘Block’ button works. This was actually announced back in September, but is officially being implemented now (well, it’ll be in place ‘soon’ we’re told).

It means that going forward, X users who you have blocked will still be able to view your (public) posts – though they won’t be able to engage with them in any way (from replies to liking and so forth).

This is problematic for obvious reasons, in terms of enabling stalkers and trolls who will still be able to view the posts of an account that has blocked them, when previously this wasn’t the case. In the past, blocking meant that the blocked user couldn’t see any posts (or anything at all, save for a message telling them that they’ve been blocked), but soon, this will change.

Bluesky posted to say it had in excess of 100,000 new users inside 12 hours following the announcement by X, after the rival network highlighted the fact that its block function stops those who are blocked from viewing any posts.

In an update, Bluesky noted that it has now gained half a million new users in the past day.

There’s another reason that some folks are rapidly exiting from X stage left (and right, and indeed center, clambering over the audience, it would seem), and that’s a change to X’s privacy policy.

As TechCrunch reports, the new policy includes an update that allows third-party collaborators to use content on X to train their AI models – unless the user opts out. This is a notable extension of the reach of AI training on X, which has so far only been used to train Musk’s own Grok AI (unless users opt out, again).

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I just go where the japanese artists go, and they are going to either blue sky or misskey, mostly blue sky since it has a bigger reach, misskey closed account creation for outsiders, and the way mastodon works I bet it's defederated from a lot of the popular instances like baraag.

[–] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Misskey is like mastodon so you can just go to another misskey instance.

But if you're talking about the misskey.io instance, it's not that defederated from my experience (the 3 instances I'm on aren't defederated from it).

The instance simply follows Japanese law so whatever Japan allows they allow and whatever Japan forbids they forbid (which is why censoring genitals is also mandatory in that instance lol). It's not like it's some nazi cesspool or anything like that.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

ive been enjoying bluesky more than twitter. i just wish more bug accounts would migrate. i post on both platforms with a script that i wrote and my engagement/followers ratio is far higher

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I tried Bluesky but just couldn't get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I'm liking Threads a bit, too.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

What pros are there to having a blocked person still be able to see your posts?

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[–] KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Pussy. Ass. Bitch.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Do they drift back though. Bigger accounts seems to struggle to kick the Twitter high .

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

even tho twitter is more ruined by him people will still use it

[–] mochisuki@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Network effect is a hell of a drug

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I hate Twitter, but I'm getting to the point where I want it to get better because if bluesky gets many more members we're just gonna have Twitter again.

One thing I liked about the Muskification of Twitter was the scattering.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Idiots users just recreating conditions that created their misery in the first place. Freedom doesn't happen from the grace of some cult leader and their slightly less immediately hostile app

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What sets it apart is that on Bluesky you can create your own algorithm. You can also share this algorithm, if you want, so others can subscribe to it. This means you see only what you want to see, and not what some corporate algorithm wants to see to maximise some kind of engagement.

Moreover, Bluesky is also its own federation. There aren't many who choose to do so, but you can connect to Bluesky using your own domain, which you have complet control over.

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