Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
Goddamn, if they're already splitting hairs over platforming anti-trans voices, their site really is speedrunning the downfall of Twitter.
Trust and Safety my ass. The whole reason people are there is because Twitter chose to platform nazis and became a nazi bar. You don't immediately screw this up by equivocating about personal responsibility and block tools. You ban the nazis so they don't get a foothold in the first place.
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
Anyway, this and my general discomfort over running my online presence like a content mill means I'm staying with Masto for the long term, I think.
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
Person on the blue site gets it: "moderation only has limits when engagement starts looking like dollar signs": https://bsky.app/profile/brentosaur.bsky.social/post/3ld7je2uhi226
So much of this is sourced from the ads industry having power, where keeping people on a single website _is_ the revenue model. It's how these sites carve out power where relevance (eg, distribution) was once the metric, and you see it everywhere now.
It also signals Bsky wants to make people the product again.
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
@Goldkin also looks like a potentially funny outcome https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyw3m7azmqpxy5rrzapttea3/post/3ldbob6nc4k2i
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
@KayOhtie Not sure I personally go that far, BUT:
If one of the accidental outputs of people moving to Bsky and using these new tools is a crash course in opsec and being really cautious about who you engage with at all, and people start to learn that through the website, that would be a really useful and really funny way for folks to learn about how useful site moderation is.
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
@KayOhtie Despite my being absolutely pissed at Bsky's concept of not moderating the discussion directly, their scalable mod tooling is great.
It's still not as robust as tools we used to kick around on ye olde forum days -- ie, moderation lists are really just RBLs/DNSBLs in fancy clothes, and we had tools that could refine from there -- but they scale a bit better and are easy for users to understand. And I like that a lot tbh.
Bsky discourse, swearing at bad mod decisions
@Goldkin having a bad time is funnier than being in their hate chambers exclusively. Maybe it causes a few more folks to deradicalize from hate. Maybe at least. I do agree it sucks overall though.