Maybe they can untangle the vanity plate situation as well:
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/court-rules-ban-offensiv...
Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
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Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#12what a joke. lol
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#13what a joke. lol
Seriously. My single-dev web service has a better list.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#14S*yb*y is now a slur on the same level as racial slurs now?
No one has said that they are on the same level?
They're on the same level insofar as it's been deemed serious enough by someone to put on this list. Just funny to see it on a list filled with ethnic slurs and a couple disability slurs, looks very out of place to see an extremely-online insult alongside slurs with tons of historical baggage.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#15Add this to the list of "running a social network is hard" issues
"running a social network and not making silly blacklists of names is hard"
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#18S*yb*y is now a slur on the same level as racial slurs now?
It took me almost a full minute to figure out what this is supposed to be.
I think it’s “SoyBoy” for anyone clueless as me.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one has said that they are on the same level?
They are literally in the same flat array
That just means that they both meet the same bar. It doesn't follow that they are equally horrible.
Murder and tax evasion are both crimes, does that mean they're on the same level?
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#20S*yb*y is now a slur on the same level as racial slurs now?
I don’t know why an array in source code would imply an ordering to you; it’s much more likely the author just picked a a list online. Note that this list also contains several terms that are either reappropriations or contextual uses, and only applies to usernames. This is more or less what any social media network of a nontrivial size does.
not an ordering, but a threshold, "as bad as" to the extent it's on the same list