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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

Jensson wrote: post #221
ASalazarMX wrote: post #208

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I'm sorry you had to go through such a horrible experience @EndWokeness, but you could have stated an actual biological fact by posting "There are only two sexes", even if there are corner cases. This week I've started to see new users that post flamebait, gore, or even child porn in BlueSky. These get banned quickly, but I can't fathom what's the psychological necessity of people like you following the "wokes" to a…

Since gender is a social construct with no physical meaning it means he isn't wrong, everyone is allowed to decide how many genders there are in their own mind. His social construct just has 2 genders, others might have more.

I think this is not quite correct. Social construct doesn't imply that everyone decides for themselves and all those decisions are equally valid.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

know-how wrote: post #145
ks2048 wrote: post #79

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You're right, they need to do well with the bot problem to really succeed. But, it won't be "just like twitter" unless the "Discover" tab ("For You" on X) is filled the billionaire owner's non-stop hyper-partisan, political posts.

What's really funny is the same people whining about Musk's views would be cheering him on if he shared their own.

Can you explain why this is funny? What's the joke?

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Post by policky »

whaaaaat wrote: post #248
policky wrote: post #246

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You post: > No-one in that conversation denied the existence of anyone. Then go on to deny the existence of trans folks. I ain't going to reply to all your hateful nonsense. Yours is the opinion that crosses over from "I don't want to hang out with trans people" to "I deny trans people", and I don't have to tolerate hateful people.

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Post by tptacek »

squigz wrote: post #127
johnnyanmac wrote: post #123

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no, $1, one time. Despite the owner, this was one thing SomethingAwful seemed to do right over 20 years ago. The goal isn't to make money, but discourage botting. any paywall works and $1 is about as low as you can go in a digital transaction without credit card brokers making it difficult for you. And yes, it really shouldn't go up. SomethingAwful was 10bux back in 2005, and is still 10bux in 2025 (they monetized ot…

I like how nobody on HN seems to understand how poverty works.

Are you sure you do? You seem to be trying to argue that a $1/year fee for a 2nd tier messaging service would be a great hardship.

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Post by Sammi »

Waterluvian wrote: post #54
paxys wrote: post #19

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The AT Protocol already accounts for this. There will eventually be community-built content labelers and classifers that you can subscribe to to rank and moderate your own feed however you want.

I have a feeling that this is going to create a weird thing of some magnitude where accounts end up on popular blacklists for poor reasons and have no recourse. I’m concerned that in time it might develop into zealous communities of samethink where you have to mind any slightly dissenting opinion or you’ll get blacklisted. I think what I’m thinking about is essentially that judges cannot be replaced by community opin…

In Bsky there is built in support for publishing and subscribing to different algorithms or feeds, and these will apply different block lists and moderation. People will subscribe to multiple feeds. It's like how there are different news channels or news sites. You follow multiple of them.

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Post by Sammi »

agoodusername63 wrote: post #86
citizenkeen wrote: post #42

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This underestimates the effect of Bluesky’s culture of “block and move on”. There are curated block lists you can subscribe to. Individual communities do a pretty good job of shutting down toxicity they don’t want to engage with.

It shares the same problem that Twitter had years ago back when it supported API blocklists. Everybody you're blocking is at the whims of the blocklist owner, and it didn't take long for those people to go insane and use their lists as a tool for their own personal unrelated crusades. Bluesky is already starting to experience this from a few I saw going around

On Bluesky you have different algorithms/feeds which solves this problem. You subscribe to multiple feeds, which show you different content using different moderation and block lists. Sort of like you read different news sites and watch different news channels. Whatever feed you find that you enjoy the most is the one you spend the most time on.

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Post by Wheatman »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #252
know-how wrote: post #145

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What's really funny is the same people whining about Musk's views would be cheering him on if he shared their own.

Can you explain why this is funny? What's the joke?

I guess It is less haha funny, and more depressing funny.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by newsclues »

dyauspitr wrote: post #230
newsclues wrote: post #204

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Influence is just a tool to effect change upon people at scale. It’s a tool, it can be used for good or evil. I’ll leave the subjective analysis to others but I think tools are rare just good or bad.

It’s not that simple. Tribalism is easy and most considered a net negative. Tribalism is easy to sell because it’s ingrained in humans. That’s what 4chan does, pick the lowest hanging fruit.

Imagine living a primitive life in a cave or the woods, you eat berries and kill small animals and cook by a campfire.

Do you really think joining up with other primitive humans in a small tribe would be a negative experience on your life?

Friends and allies would be helpful.

Tribalism is an essential human social method that got humanity to this point!

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by sojournerc »

dyauspitr wrote: post #178
sojournerc wrote: post #82

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Relevant username. Voat definitely fell victim to bad actors. Are you a creator/founder?

Voat specifically selected for bad actors.

There was an influx of less than savory characters after reddit censorship of some unfortunate subs, but I don't think voat was created for "bad actors", which is why OP's question is relevant.
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