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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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> When people talk about the pancakes/waffle thing in this context That makes sense. The original meme was widespread and this is fairly niche. > That seems unnecessarily hostile, especially given I was responding to this comment of yours. No man, I really mean it. Maybe it's hostile, but also, people talking about this legitimately sound, I don't know... unhinged? Off? I am flustered, because of how ridiculous this…

It is ok if you just didn’t/don’t know what people were talking about, I hope you are doing well. To put my point as simply as possible for someone that isn’t ‘terminally online’ and understands that ‘posting isn’t praxis’ but also uses those phrases unprompted: People have criticized Jay for getting Poster’s Madness because of a time when she, as an admin, appeared to respond to any criticism saying everybody else h…

im also one of those people who is struggling to understand why people seem so passionate. its a twitter clone.

i also dont know whats going on, although it is a obscure drama from a relatively small community

i think maybe that is this disconnect. that relatively small community is extremely important to you but many other people here lack similar footing. i dont think the hostility is warranted but i can feel myself furrowing my brow and asking out loud what is happening when i read some of the posts from bluesky users in this thread

i guess i am glad i never got big into twitter or bluesky or the attention economy

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Jay please answer this.

Did you notice that not one company who implemented KYC has answered any comment on this in HN?

Yes, they are scumbag bootlickers who are willingly and knowingly accelerating the end of western values and the creation of a dystopia.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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Putting a lot of weight on a single data point there. How does Apple even choose the top apps? Why assume it’s some reliable metric for use?

The discussion is about trends, and the most recent datapoint shows it at a point of primacy when the argument was it was in decline two years ago. Clearly that claim was incorrect.

A single datapoint does not disprove a trend. That's basic stats.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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>Politically incorrect things might be a symptom of low filtration on almost any other site, Why would that change anything? I've always found political incorrectness to be a symptom of free speech. >but not one run by Elon Musk. Why would that be any different? Same symptom. Same free speech as far as I can tell. >He has a clear agenda What's the agenda? >is not shy about putting his finger on the scale at X. What i…

Sorry, I don't find it very interesting to debate whether the sky is blue. We can agree to disagree.

We can agree you've contributed nothing but bad faith nonsense to this thread and are mad nobody is buying your MDS addled nonsense.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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The censorship now is worse than what happened to Bhattacharya.

Court orders are different from psyops. The Bhattacharya thing, and the entire narrative around that stuff was essentially a psyop. Geo-restricting a Turkish politician because the authoritarian govt arrested him and gave a court order to restrict his account is - first of all - what all social media platforms must adhere to legally, and second of all is currently being contested by X in court.

I don't know if it was a psyop. Twitter banned tons of people during covid for completely ridiculous reasons, unless it was somehow all forced by court order or something

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#406

Jay here: this is a transition I've been working towards for awhile, and I'm looking forward to advancing the vision and ecosystem as CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and I personally recruited him to take over as CEO while I focus on new projects within the company. It's an honor to have him on board to lead us into this next stage of growth.

Question about Bluesky and Persona integration. As i understand there are plans to delegate government id verifications to Persona? ( https://withpersona.com ) Any confirmation? Comments?

You understand it from where?

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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And that in comparison to Reddit ot Twitter?! :D

Yes, in the case of Twitter/X. A considerably wider range of expressed preference&opinion is permitted there before platform moderators will aggressively ban or users start flag/report brigades.

Oooh not true

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#408

Just to say the obvious: the new CEO is a VC partner and former CEO of Automattic. That seems very bad, no matter how "committed" they are to the vision of Bluesky.

Former CEO that kept Wordpress open source and never oversaw any layoffs.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

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The response was to someone commenting the discourse on Bluesky was "off putting" so they went back to Twitter. I wasn't touching on freedom of speech, just the relative quality of speech in both platforms. As a centralized service operating in Canada and the EU though, I do believe Twitter is legally required to remove certain kinds of hate speech. The qualification for removal might be debatable (e.g. "the Austrian…

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> I also don't pretend the history I learned about WWII and the persecution of Jewish people was objective truth either.

I'm not sure what you expect by spewing stuff like this apart from downvotes without comments.

Re: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

#410

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Court orders are different from psyops. The Bhattacharya thing, and the entire narrative around that stuff was essentially a psyop. Geo-restricting a Turkish politician because the authoritarian govt arrested him and gave a court order to restrict his account is - first of all - what all social media platforms must adhere to legally, and second of all is currently being contested by X in court.

I don't know if it was a psyop. Twitter banned tons of people during covid for completely ridiculous reasons, unless it was somehow all forced by court order or something

you don't know the people that are banned now but you knew the people back then. why do you think that is?
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