I actually don't mind that people want to have control of their data. I do mind that they are ignorant reactionary humanists with a knee-jerk hatred of technology who call themselves progressive.

We could both get what we want, if they would simply keep their data to themselves

what people really arent getting is that you are being farmed by Bluesky, the api PROVIDER! It doesnt matter that some guy from huggingface collected the data, it was already farmed and there for the taking, and dozens have already done the same privately.

A librarian that previously worked at the British Library created a relatively small dataset of bsky posts, hundreds of times smaller than previous researchers, to help folks create toxicity filters and stuff.

So people bullied him & posted death threats.

He took it down.

Nice one, folks.

the reactions to this are insane, do people seriously not realize this is from a publicly accessible API ??? that anyone else can access at any time? your data was never private