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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. 🤷

based on my understanding of AT, I would be *extremely* skeptical of that statement unless I heard Bluesky themselves release a statement that they're planning on doing it. AT is designed in a way that doesn't provide much wiggle room here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

if folks wanted "private-only" accounts - ie, an account that's created in private mode and is functionally just DMing their posts to a specified set of users, that would be possible to hack into it, but when people say "private accounts" they're usually talking about something similar to Twitter