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
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 I was reading somewhere that he quickly became the highest per-user block and mute on the website.
While they should still deplatform his ass, if he's having a bad time? Good.
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.