If you are cis ("not transgender") I need to explain this to you.
Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.
Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.
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Bluesky Safety
In the past month alone, over 12M people joined Bluesky, with daily active users growing 10x. We received more reports in two days than in all of last year, and have integrated new systems and quadrupled our moderation team to try and keep up. Sometimes, we have to work quickly to correct errors.
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that way if the list moderator eventually decides to gtfo bsky you'll still have him blocked
Keep up the good work, my friend. Your efforts are not in vain.
Playing by broken old rules is just keeping the same old problems targeting the same people and I had honestly thought better of this place.
I'm really disappointed.
At this point it looks like they just don't give a crap.
He was unbanned almost right away by his pal @aaron.bsky.team , head of @safety.bsky.app ! And THEN, after days of completely ignoring everyone, they came out with this reinterpretation
People really are on edge. Can you blame anyone, though? It's been such a shitshow on social media for so long that we've forgotten how to engage in good faith.
Well, I think part of what is going wrong with bluesky is a deep strain of philosophical anarcho-libertarianism, but… uh, ok wait, you might be right that syndicalism has a solution?? I don't know anything about it?? I guess i need to read more Theory??!
But currently staff seem disinterested in even that.
I am willing to bet that Jesse Signal is expecting this site to bend the knee for an incoming administration as well.
This thread lays out well why that's not what they're accomplishing, but for the moment, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that they listen and make changes.
I link a petition at the end of the thread… but I'm not sure that adding numbers to the petition makes any more difference than just talking about it on Bluesky, which is to say, it only makes a difference if Bluesky Social (the company) wants it to.
But again, I believe this must be a mistake from the Bluesky and they will change their minds.
Anyways good thread and thanks for the information.
https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3ldcasdh5rk2p
(link goes to thread if you wanna read it)
these people thrive off of attention, and it can be revoked from them on here
If they don't have it in them to care about the safety of trans people you'd think they would at least have financial sense.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ey34srw7uoex672gmwebcnav/lists/3lcozj6mgew2u
Am I missing something? Why is this different from any other hateful prick online?
Note the part where if you disagree with him he's liable to try to get you fired from your job.
The short version is "he's actively recruiting new toxic people to the site, and I probably can't block all of them".
https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3ldcaqaq5hk2p
But because it's a Massive advantage to be able to have someone sneaking around reporting the other team's every move, third-party apps like Discord are commonly used to do it anyway.
Isn't it enough?
(Don't even know who the cited person in question is, this is a genuine curiosity)
It is not enough
But one thing you can always do is to block logged out visibility and always block profiles using moderation lists. It helps.
In this case, private profiles are really missing...
And it takes about a minute for a bad actor to just make a burner account to immediately start harassing someone who's blocked them
This had a cost. That is my point.
What should decide what is considered dangerous or detrimental?
In my pov, only clear actions by the actual account to be punished.
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They're straight up saying that harassment isn't harassment unless you say you're harassing someone
This is the most gameable system ever
Anyone working with groups out to hurt people should not be allowed here. They ain't owed a platform. Just have to catch em out on something thats ban worthy.
They didn't break any rules,
But everybody was just avoiding open channels bc of them. Mods included. So we just sent them out.
We made the rules to keep the server alive, we could change them to keep it alive.
Blatant 1D breach
"Do not support or normalize pedophilia or the sexual exploitation of minors."
once you enter the thread the misconception dissipates, but.. yeah
The context is that there is an organized, anonymous group, centered around a site named "Kiwifarms", that has as a goal driving trans people to suicide. Singal is *currently* describing himself as working with this group as part of his operations on the site.
As opposed to limiting who can see/interact with their users.
That's why I asked for clarification on that system.
These days I typically try to understand how a system works before I formulate an opinion on it.
I'm reading the screenshot and I cannot figure out how it applies to the situation.
Like, Is it true that Singal post have had technical issues?
The explanation doesn't make technical sense...
Is that a lie to justify painting target on an innocent victim?
and multiple SWAT attempts at US government representatives. Women, both Democrat and Republican, who they've targeted not for being trans or having pro trans policies, but for being women
This is what Bluesky says is cool
(Never heard of this term regarding pro harm groups)
If KF were actually gone, I wouldn't have been getting ppl trying to follow me with Kiwifarms header images in the last few weeks
You can’t do anything about KF randomly contacting you but that’s not the kind of thing you just put out there.
Understandably, but still.
No problem with T&S taking immediate action when someone is breaking the site.