The fact that this LARP account is the 11th biggest account on all of Bluesky and is taken as a legitimate source of news by people is so disturbing to me.
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if that gimmick account can't validate itself as a registered non-profit (or even a super/pac) and show receipts of how many in that specific sector it helped, then it should be labeled as a grift
people should report that account to bluesky moderation to force it to add that domain as its handle
Bluesky needs a verification system for a bunch of reasons, but one of them is that there desperately needs to be an infrastructure in place in which people are incentivized to follow actual journalists and reporters and news outlets and not wander towards following fanfiction nonsense like this.
strongly agree that a verification system is needed but i don't think it would make a difference in this case. i mean how would you even verify whether an "alt park services" account was real or not? (also i think it's very clear that accounts like that are what the people on here want)
You're almost certainly right, but if nothing else I hope it'd be enough of a cue to make some of the new ppl who'll join who aren't already knee-deep in resistance-ness to think "Huh, wonder why it's unverified."
yeah lol I got accused of being a Russian agent yesterday by someone who said that sitting out protesting Israel for a year so Dems could "win the election" was critical after I called them a fucking idiot lol
I was following the account because I wanted to cast a wide net for getting updates on news, but I didn't realize it's been around for as long as it has or that they're selling merch. Even then, I knew it wasn't an "official" account for anything and I'm sad that so many people actually think that.
I sincerely wish that was the case because it'd be less unseemly, but go check out the replies of any of their posts before this weekend. Their fandom of old boomers take them very, very seriously pretty much universally.
That was my thinking as well. I followed them as a parody site and assumed they were just going to mock this administration. Wouldn’t take anything of theirs serious.
But even if I did, I’m not sure what they’re suggesting that is harmful? (Then again, I can’t think of the last time I saw a post)
The responses certainly seem dumb, but random numbers seem a long way from “this pizza parlor is trafficking children” or “that group of ordinary people need to be stopped at all costs.”
I assume this is a slippery slope argument, but where are you concerned they are sliding too?
It's a fake account that's tricking people about who they are and is posting total nonsense with codes. I'm kind of exhausted making the case for why this is obviously a bad thing. Like no, this isn't literally Qanon, but you can still have basic empathy for elderly marks getting long-conned.
That’s why I’m asking though. We agree misinformation is bad. But there’s a difference between tricking someone into forfeiting their life savings/committing a crime, and tricking someone into buying a t-shirt.
I’m trying to understand where this sits in the spectrum, and why ppl care so much?
I've spent the entire weekend being subjected to them and you can tell that these people are not sensible. Like they're treating this account in a way that is totally, totally unhealthy and irrational.
I didn't care about them until I saw "resistance" in their bio. Naaaaaaah hard pass on all of that signaling. Just fight. "The Resistance" is tainted propaganda.
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people should report that account to bluesky moderation to force it to add that domain as its handle
people need that account to force it to do that, then the next steps happen
There was no value added
But even if I did, I’m not sure what they’re suggesting that is harmful? (Then again, I can’t think of the last time I saw a post)
I assume this is a slippery slope argument, but where are you concerned they are sliding too?
I’m trying to understand where this sits in the spectrum, and why ppl care so much?
I don’t think Alt NPS is particularly harmful, but the potential for them to become so is concerning and so is the wacky numbers station shit