Well, at some point they are going to learn about 1337sp33k.
Also, I learned some new and interesting words today.
I should open a pull request to add "karen" to the list and see what happens.
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
#32Forgive my naïveté but isn’t bluesky open source and decentralized? So wouldn’t say some group just spin up an instance without these restrictions?
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#33At 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.
The name was so popular in Italy it ended up becoming a “slur” (though personally the only time I’ve ever heard someone called Guido is when that was their name). I wonder if that will ever happen with other languages and their common names, I’m Russian so I immediately think of “Sergey” as one of our ultra common names.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#34I 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation
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Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#35Hopefully they can avoid the Scunthorpe problem.
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Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#36At 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.
The name was so popular in Italy it ended up becoming a “slur” (though personally the only time I’ve ever heard someone called Guido is when that was their name). I wonder if that will ever happen with other languages and their common names, I’m Russian so I immediately think of “Sergey” as one of our ultra common names.
It's not a slur exactly, but in the United States, "Ivan" is a common name used to refer (usually dismissively) to Russians.
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#37A pal's surname is on the list, guess he just has to change his name in real life
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#38Forgive my naïveté but isn’t bluesky open source and decentralized? So wouldn’t say some group just spin up an instance without these restrictions?
Yes, but they're currently prefederation (can't run your own instance yet) and still making architectural decisions about how moderation will work.
they're balancing onboarding new users with keeping up with high expectations of their current userbase. I'm not sure how the federation story compares with mastadon, I've mostly heard talk of composite block lists (everyone you block is public on bluesky so you could have rules that say block everyone that x,y,z have blocked, minus people I follow)
Re: Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Does it really surprise you to see an extremely-online insult being included in a black list for an app for extremely-online people? I genuinely can't understand the confusion.