71–80 of 123 posts
Their ban of “non-consensual sexual imagery” made several acquaintances of mine – furry art illustrators – move to harmful communities on questionable Mastodon servers. I’m growing tired of those bans on legal content that isn’t inherently harmful (we are talking about fictional humanized animals here) but considered “icky” by platforms and payment processors. So I don’t care if the AT protocol is technologically sup…
Good they moderate. Most interesting is that they report a 60% increase user increase, up to 41M users. Considering how bad I heard "the other network" is now I wonder why so few. I have a look at Bluesky from time to time and there is (for me ofc) as much info/interesting stuff as I was getting from the other one before the acquisition.
> Good they moderate. I can moderate my own feed -- the majority of people don't need, want, or enjoy an overtly paternalistic hugbox, and especially if moderation tends to be unidirectionally skewed in one political direction. It's not surprising that growth is slow.
They publish this because the EU requires it, not out of the goodness of their hearts.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Case in point. "Everyone to the right of Marx is a Nazi" seems to be the rallying cry of their moderation strategy and user base. Which is fine -- build what you want to be a part of -- but don't pretend it's the neutral position.
Really? Anecdotal as well, but I see tonnes of liberals and similar free market oriented people all over that website... I wonder if whether our preferences are giving us different impressions of the user base?
You can't complain about content on bluesky because unlike every other platform you must choose which feeds you use.
“toxicity and inflammatory” does a lot of heavy lifting for Blueskys moderation team. i find it’s pretty toxic, in a militant way… that doesn’t get moderated of course. That’s “free expression” when it’s about topics blueskyers all agree on. waits to be called a nazi
This accusation would have a little more zing, if the person who owns the other place wasn't posting about white replacement almost every day. Pretty shitty that ones choice of social media is so politicized but if you must pick a side... I will pick the non-nazi side, thank you very much!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Are there any plans to allow third parties to provide verification services or is it always only going to be journalistic and educational institutions? Anyone can put together a moderation service that labels accounts that they’ve vetted or blacklisted. It wouldn’t be that taxing to host one, but the labor to maintain it is a different story.
Yes, anyone can. But unless Bluesky treats it as a trusted verifier then it doesn’t have much practical use.
Worth keeping in mind, the original plan was to entirely rely on domain names being used as handles for verification. All ~500 .gov handled accounts on there are almost certainly who they claim to be, unless they are able to set DNS records on those domains.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did that happen to you, or to anybody you can point to?
I think we're just, once again, speed-running the "which opinions, mfer" goose meme.
"The deportations will continue regardless of the tantrums of the hysterical and mentally ill."
Which ironically is similar to some "1939 Germany" views.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
there actually isn’t much good content on the platform in my experience. it’s just people raging about trump and whatever brand they’re looking to try and cancel next. it’s so far from the greatness of the original twitter. no tech community or content.
I have never been on twitter so I don't really know but I can agree that we see tech community in twitter but the same isn't really there in bluesky. Although I still have a web/programming which I follow and have found some people interesting from Hackernews and others too in bluesky (emsh,simonw) What is the HN consensus around lemmy? I really like lemmy and think that it might be better for tech stuff (almost simi…
I think there's a few tweetlonger-type services that people have tried to make, but with atproto they can at least embed that extra text into the post (100kb limit), so the site only needs to stick around to view it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> likely because the site was just one big echo chamber of far left American politics around that time. The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has. At least not in a self-aware sense. Maybe you meant to say liberal, to which I'd agree. That's not to say there isn't a "left" or "far left" on Bluesky, but there's no way it's a majority. I agree echo chambers are a problem there, which i…
>The US does not have a "far left" in any significant numbers, and never has. At least not in a self-aware sense. Are they just disproportionately powerful then? Because the US does definitely have consistent far left trends and movements that overtake the mainstream. The OK hand gesture hysteria is maybe an evident example, but land acknowledgments? DEI statements? Fatphobia? Defund the police? All of these originat…
You might be confused because several forces want you to be exactly that:
1) The right lumps/conflates everything from centrist liberal to far left as "the far radical left" with no in-between, which blurs many lines.
2) Center liberals who want a social media veneer they can feel good about will literally pose as leftists/marxists, but if you look at their other beliefs and behaviors (were they trying to sink Bernie, or not?) then it becomes immediately obvious they're ultimately loyal to the Dem party, and that means center liberals serving capital interests.
But I can't blame you or anyone else for falling for the above unless you've seen enough to know, like following both of Bernie's presidential runs and how he was systematically smeared by both liberals and their corporate media.
Identity politics / DEI / etc are a liberal obsession. Class politics is the focus of the actual far left.
Their ban of “non-consensual sexual imagery” made several acquaintances of mine – furry art illustrators – move to harmful communities on questionable Mastodon servers. I’m growing tired of those bans on legal content that isn’t inherently harmful (we are talking about fictional humanized animals here) but considered “icky” by platforms and payment processors. So I don’t care if the AT protocol is technologically sup…
You're complaining about the banning of illustrations featuring furries being raped? That's what non-consentual means here? I must be misreading this.