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
Twitterâs 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 Twitterâs TOS. For example, Twitter could randomly reveal that theyâve been training a better chat bot named Gruck and your opt-out option has nothing to do with this
Robloxâs opt-out option by comparison does not mention any service by name and are inclusive to opting out of any of Robloxâs machine learning, which Twitter does not offer
Not tracking your logic here. Roblox says something similar to X in their TOS.
Itâs 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 âwithout limitationâ.
If youâd like to discuss this further Iâd be happy to in DMs.
Upon reading it more specifically, this doesnât even seem to offer any protection at all. This setting states âinteractions, inputs and results with Grok.â 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 anyoneâs content anywhere else from being used for machine learning.
Robloxâs 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.
These are fantastic on Robloxâs part. I would love to see an expansion of ethical machine learning that respects privacy, but yea, thatâs getting a little off topic for this thread. At the end of the day Iâd 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 donât think this is a ânon-issueâ like people said above, roblox needs to do better at protecting children on the platform
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Iâd just remove social links altogether.
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Roblox would really need to double-down on making Group pages social then, IMO. Currently robloxâs 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.
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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.
Whatâs the actual use-case for adding Bluesky if not for being a Twitter alternative that no actual developers use and thus wouldnât benefit from Roblox adding it as a social link?
This is a prime example of how not to write a feature request. Itâs a big shame because requesting Bluesky is a totally valid request, but this feature request wonât 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, youâve 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), Twitterâs 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 âhot womenâ (yeah sorry im asexual, try harder next time).
Bluesky, Iâm yet to see a spam bot, Iâm sure theyâre 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 Iâve 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 donât recall specifics or details other than that theyâre 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
Iâm honestly hyped for this update. Most of my audience is <13 and canât use platforms like Discord.
Though, I feel like theyâre just gonna force Guilded into it. Theyâve already kind of done that with group shouts.
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Bluesky was released recently, itâs quite peaceful than twitter, once they replace X from Twitter things were atrocious once they update it, about bluesky since itâs new, gradually new users will join, so Iâm 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 thatâs part of the problem, right? If Bluesky isnât listed on Roblox officially, larger developers are punished for attempting to move platforms, as itâs not supported by roblox.
So⌠yeah. Youâre right, Iâm not sure of what larger developers with followings are on Bluesky.
We can change that. 
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 Iâm not sure what the solution to that is, or if itâs really a problem in the end.
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I took a look at bluesky to see what itâs like, and I already lean on the side of disagreeing with this. I didnât sign up or anything and the first 100 posts on the front page âDiscoverâ, had 13 posts that are definitely not appropriate for Roblox users. Not saying X is any better or doesnât contain the same content. However, if you want X removed because of the content it contains, itâs 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, itâll have the same problems. Itâs only as âpeacefulâ as people say because itâs small.
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Reviving this, because itâs interesting to talk about.
Before I used Bluesky, I thought it was a weird competitor to Twitter, but now Iâm looking up at the sky from AT Protocol. That information must be irrelevant, but itâs an interesting platform to take on for sure.
Hereâs a much more accurate statement.
I was just opening up the âLatestâ feed and was already greeted by an unmoderated/unlabeled post of an Asian man withâŚI scrolled up immediately. It somewhat is better in terms of searching system. On Twitter, you would search up an innocent keyword, and itâs a distractive site without age verification.
As if Roblox isnât already a dangerous place? Heck, itâd make sense for Roblox to be more dangerous.
Donât know which ads youâve been clicking on, but the ones I got are mostly coins, pennies, money saving crap, but I think that depends on the perspective and who⌠uses the platform.
You make Twitter seem more unstable than it is, but it has remain integrated into the system for years and has been known by people. It is unlikely that itâs going away soon. It is unlikely that it will replace Twitter, but itâd be cool to have it implemented alongside.
Every platform has its own pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, but each does also serve different purposes. Bluesky is much more likely to be political since itâs decentralized which means posts and accounts cannot be taken down, but only have advisory labels or hide depending on the individualâs request. Bluesky also makes a great companion platform for game studios due to its nature of handles being domains. This makes it verifiable by domains instead and can give profiles the state of being more âofficial.â
Being to either use a public resource for handling your account or self-hosting your profiles instead? Being INTEROPERABLE and able to carry an identity between platforms? Sold. Twice.
There are 30+ million users on Bluesky currently, so it would probably be worth to implement it.
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While I generally agree with a lot of things in this response, I think youâre going a bit too easy on twitter and going a bit hard on Bluesky.
From what I can tell (Though Iâm not super sure how the decentralization works entirely), you can still get âBannedâ from Bluesky, at least, the majority of bluesky, only being viewable from other third-party apps/moderation systems, or something vaguely along those lines. I couldnât find anybody explaining it well, but Bluesky is definitely heavily moderated in many aspects, and it seems to be relatively effective for the majority of users. I doubt most people will know how to even get to Bluesky-banned accounts, especially if using the default Bluesky app.
âBluesky is much more likely to be politicalâ doesnât strike me as being a useful or accurate observation either; Since Elon took over Twitter, he has specifically promoted a lot of alt-right content, as well as changed the previous word filters to specifically ban certain terminology while allowing other far more extreme terms. Bluesky is not inherently more political - It simply has a different political leaning than current day âXâ does. A leaning that is less forced and toxic, in my opinion, as itâs not centered on Elonâs general disinformation campaign.
I do agree though, that while Bluesky has nice tagging features, it has similar likelihood as Twitter does to show you inappropriate/untagged content. I am not sure exactly why that isâŚ
Perhaps growing pains.
I also simply donât see âRoblox is already unsafeâ as an important position here, when the goal of roblox at the very least, is to make Roblox safe for itâs audiences. The argument that Bluesky is not as safe as I initially gave it credit for? Thatâs valid, and I have heard others say the same thing about getting untagged content in their feed. But the idea that Roblox is not safe enough to warrant considering which platform is safer is a bit besides the point.
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bluesky is where alot of the left-wing people are going, and twitter is where alot of the right-wing people are going
i believe both of those groups of people are equally stupid, so peep this idea. we remove both
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