Roblox should switch allowing Bluesky Social links instead of X/Twitter links

To be fair, every major social media platform, now including Roblox, does the same.

This is objectively false, there is a toggle in settings.

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Roblox has options to opt out of allowing our creations to be used for machine learning

Twitter’s opt-out option, as your screenshot also shows, is for Grok specifically. Grok is a chatting AI specific to Twitter. There is no way to opt out of allowing your content to be trained for other machine algorithms Twitter owns or has partnership with, including generative AI, and your agreement to this is in Twitter’s TOS. For example, Twitter could randomly reveal that they’ve been training a better chat bot named Gruck and your opt-out option has nothing to do with this

Roblox’s opt-out option by comparison does not mention any service by name and are inclusive to opting out of any of Roblox’s machine learning, which Twitter does not offer

Not tracking your logic here. Roblox says something similar to X in their TOS.

It’s explicitly stated in Roblox TOS that you give them full rights to anything you upload on the platform, including the use of training machine learning models “without limitation”.

If you’d like to discuss this further I’d be happy to in DMs.

Upon reading it more specifically, this doesn’t even seem to offer any protection at all. This setting states “interactions, inputs and results with Grok.” That implies that you can only opt out of your interactions WITH Grok to be used to improve Grok and there is no setting that protects anyone’s content anywhere else from being used for machine learning.

Roblox’s TOS clarifies that their TOS does not impede on your ability to choose your sharing preferences. It also states that Roblox will not allow 3rd party services to use your data to train their models.
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These are fantastic on Roblox’s part. I would love to see an expansion of ethical machine learning that respects privacy, but yea, that’s getting a little off topic for this thread. At the end of the day I’d just like to see Roblox supporting more social platforms for developers and creators on Roblox to deliver information to their fans

twitter has never been safe for children, but in recent years it has gotten exceedingly bad. i don’t think this is a “non-issue” like people said above, roblox needs to do better at protecting children on the platform

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I’d just remove social links altogether.

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Roblox would really need to double-down on making Group pages social then, IMO. Currently roblox’s social features are still very very lacking for developers to leverage.

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So does bluesky? What? Literally first thing I saw in that site is a suggestive art piece.

Bluesky is not as large of a social media compared to Twitter. No chance.

Very well. May you please name some top developers who actively use Bluesky over Twitter? The only thing I see on Bluesky when I search for Roblox is art, rather than actual development or even discussion of the platform. Contrasted to Twitter, when you search Roblox, you at the very least get to see what developers and players of Roblox are talking about.

What’s the actual use-case for adding Bluesky if not for being a Twitter alternative that no actual developers use and thus wouldn’t benefit from Roblox adding it as a social link?

This is a prime example of how not to write a feature request. It’s a big shame because requesting Bluesky is a totally valid request, but this feature request won’t go anywhere internally because you spend half of it saying Twitter should be removed (which will never happen.)

You should rewrite this feature request to focus only on Bluesky. Otherwise, you’ve completely wasted your time and hampered any future request to add Bluesky as a social link on the platform.

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While every platform has an issue with illegal content (esp. Roblox), Twitter’s horrendus moderation on it is good enough of a reason to get it removed here.

I have a lurker account on Twitter with follower requests and my entire follower request list is spam bots trying to scam me with their profile being set to “hot women” (yeah sorry im asexual, try harder next time).

Bluesky, I’m yet to see a spam bot, I’m sure they’re out there in the long run but with Twitter, the problem is right here, right now.

I also find a problem with the phrasing of this feature request, you should focus on getting Bluesky added more over Twitter getting removed. Yeah, Twitter has 101 valid reasons for removal as I’ve said, but this wont go anywhere internally because it feels like a ragebait post.

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I would really love to see this too. I remember then mentioning it in the last RDC, but I don’t recall specifics or details other than that they’re looking to expand groups into a full-on social hub. This would be super great because it allows you to have a place to deliver information on a platform that you know your community is already on! and also encourage people to join groups

twitter/bluesky and such also offer other unique pros though such as more visibility to people who may not already be playing your game

I’m honestly hyped for this update. Most of my audience is <13 and can’t use platforms like Discord.

Though, I feel like they’re just gonna force Guilded into it. They’ve already kind of done that with group shouts.

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Bluesky was released recently, it’s quite peaceful than twitter, once they replace X from Twitter things were atrocious once they update it, about bluesky since it’s new, gradually new users will join, so I’m not sure how it affects the platform when they create unnecessary drama, likewise in twitter, but definitely Roblox should change twitter to bluesky or adding it soon.

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You do understand that’s part of the problem, right? If Bluesky isn’t listed on Roblox officially, larger developers are punished for attempting to move platforms, as it’s not supported by roblox.

So… yeah. You’re right, I’m not sure of what larger developers with followings are on Bluesky.
We can change that. :slight_smile:

Bluesky is growing at a rapid pace, as more people abandon Twitter. Developers deserve the ability to migrate as well, should they desire.


The only real issue so far seemingly is the link-based profile sharing, which I agree is kind of hard to get around. Though I’m not sure what the solution to that is, or if it’s really a problem in the end.

I took a look at bluesky to see what it’s like, and I already lean on the side of disagreeing with this. I didn’t sign up or anything and the first 100 posts on the front page “Discover”, had 13 posts that are definitely not appropriate for Roblox users. Not saying X is any better or doesn’t contain the same content. However, if you want X removed because of the content it contains, it’s kind of unfair for the other platforms to be given a free pass essentially considering how dangerous Discord has been shown to be. I could go into detail, but this is a feature request and not meant for these discussions.

Bots flock to the largest platforms to make the most money, so if bluesky grows, it’ll have the same problems. It’s only as “peaceful” as people say because it’s small.

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