What separates Bluesky's creative AI conversation from elsewhere is that rejection has become structural — encoded into follow/unfollow decisions rather than expressed as argument. Bluesky positioned itself early as a refuge from AI-scraped platforms, promising in November 2024 it had no intention of training on user posts, which made subsequent AI feature introductions land as a betrayal rather than a business decision. The community's response was to treat the social graph itself as enforcement: posting AI-generated work is not a controversy to debate, it is an exit trigger. That norm…