I still can't sign up and see what it's all about anyway. I'm not losing sleep over it, but I'd still like to poke around.
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
#22They are missing the T word, the F word, the D word, the S word, and the M word. Now obviously only some of those are racial slurs but I think keeping this in the code base rather than a database is definitely asking for issues
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#23Context: Yesterday a user created a Bluesky account using the N-word as their handle and, unsurprisingly, people were not happy and there was clamor for the Bluesky dev team to add a filter at the account creation level.
My only surprise is that it took this long
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#24Give me five good men and fifteen minutes, we'll compose a far more comprehensive list of cuss words. lol
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#25Must be a fun morning for the devs to come up with a list. Not very complete as of yet.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#26Hopefully they can avoid the Scunthorpe problem.
As I follow the code, it's just a literal match. So "coon" is disallowed, but "CarrieCoon" (or "DirtyCoon"...) is still allowed.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
“Threshold” means “at least,” not “as bad as.” I don’t think anybody thinks that the two are meaningfully comparable in badness.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#28At least they don’t have Guido in it… yet. I have major problems signing up for services these days. There’s some list out there that programmers use that says that my name is a slur.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#29I think that the reappropriation of slurs, like yankee, whig, tory, queer, etc., is a positive thing. But this practice serves to lock them in place, helping to insure that they remain slurs.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#30R.I.P. my sauerkraut fan club
Let me be the first to bring Jung into this, "What you resist, persists", in trying to avoid the usage of slurs, you had to go and commit them to a public branch of source code to be saved in the arctic vault for eternity.