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probably more people will be blocking attie than ICE by the end of the day tomorrow.

It's also blocked by another 135K people via blocklists.

beating expectations! attie's gonna be the most blocked account on bluesky within 48 hours

I find this intriguing because I'm a HUGE "A.i." hater, but I don't even think attie is the worst example out there - as I understand it, it's a feed creator, not a content scraper/thief. But it's "A.i.," so it's potentially contributing to the environmental/economic issues we've seen... AND...

...since it's "A.i.," I think it's justifiable to suspicious of mission creep and additional "A.i." crap to follow that DOES scrape and steal data and contribute to disinfo and bullshit. It was also AGGRESSIVELY marketed as "A.i." - down to the domain name - to a platform of users that HATE "A.i."

Maybe the product will work fine. But it ALSO feels like a situation where tech overlords are pushing "A.i." onto something that doesn't need it. If feeds are so hard to create, why not just... make a better, more intuitive feed creator with better UI?

We've all seen "A.i." RUIN good apps. Why should we believe this will be any different?

I also suspect a big part of the backlash is that dedicated users have a long list of features that we've been requesting for years now - and this was absolutely not on that list. (The ability to make accounts private is the most important unrealized feature. I know it's hard! But it's key.)

It's not just a question of hard - I actually am not sure it's even *possible* (at least for a definition of "private" that actually matters) with the way AT is designed.

A developer who works with Bluesky said a year or a year and a half ago that it was doable. I'm not tech savvy enough to judge independently, but I've been going off of that statement. 🤷

Some kind of private data sharing within user-chosen groups is definitely possible and actively being pursued. (I realize that’s not exactly the same thing as taking one’s existing account private, but it may meet overlapping needs.) dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o

yeah, that would be cool to have and AFAIK unique from a product perspective (ignoring Google+ Circles)! though what I've seen a lot of is folks asking for a way to limit visibility to quickly limit harassment campaigns - which Twitter has, and is a reasonable request, but unlikely to work here

federation is an integral part of Bluesky, both in technical design and philosophically, but it's also something 99% of users don't care about (or understand the implications of), so it makes for product challenges that people don't understand because "well other sites can do it"