According to the parent, the platform gives the content creator the choice/control. So no, it's not garbage and that's the correct way to go about it.

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bangaladore 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Disagree. It gives the user the illusion that the purpose is to protect them somehow, but in reality it is solely there to be anti-user and pro lock in to social media walled gardens.

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0xCAP 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's also a way to prevent LLMs to get trained on their data without their consent.

	▲	danabramov 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's not correct. The setting is mostly cosmetic and only affects the Bluesky official app and web interface. People do find this setting helpful for curbing external waves of harassment (less motivated people just won't bother making an account), but the data is public and is available on the AT protocol: https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6... So nothing is stopping LLMs from training on that data per se.

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csomar 13 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a non-default setting. So no. I am not sure what you disagree with exactly? We can call out BlueSky when they over-reach, but this is simply not it.