Bluesky Shipped AI and 125,000 People Blocked It by Lunch
1,500 followers, 125,000 blocks, second-most-hated account on the whole network.
Bluesky shipped an AI feature named Attie, and its artist-heavy userbase answered with the digital equivalent of a torches-and-pitchforks parade, slapping roughly 125,000 blocks on the thing within days and rocketing a barely-followed account up to second-most-blocked on the entire network. Only the Vice President outranked it for sheer collective disgust, which is one hell of a peer group for your f*ucking AI to crack into. The welcome mat told the whole story in one number. TechCrunch covered the mass block .
Source: TechCrunch · TechCrunch
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