Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.
  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    69·
    3 months ago

    Bluesky’s moderation team is shit. Recently, their “head of trust and safety” went full Elongated Muskrat and tried to permanently ban a user who was tracking his public data.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      If anyone truly thought this group of techbros that was spearheaded and organized by Jack Dorsey was gonna somehow be different than the previous iterations, I’ve got a bridge to sell them. I mean, they owe millions to Blockchain Capital. Cryptobros. But sure, we just need to keep making more billionaires and then ditching their services after they have enough money to deeply influence politics.

      Idiots acting like they’re against people like Musk but they’re just creating another one at a different company.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        they’re not creating “another one”. Dorsey is already made and he seems to be immune to whatever is working elon’s intestines.

        ps i don’t care a bit about Dorsey either. I just see a difference.

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          Dorsey already left Bluesky back to Xitter because he didn’t like their moderation practices. I’m talking about Jay Graber, who literally got their start developing Zcash, a cryptocurrency. Graber is far from a billionaire at the moment.

          • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            Dorsey went back to Xitter!

            Why would he do that 🤦

            sorry, ignore my previous comment. This too! I need to read a little on this now. Apparently i missed that move

            edit: reading this ☞ https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

            This tool was designed such that it had, you know, it was a base level protocol. It had a reference app on top. It was designed to be controlled by the people. I think the greatest idea — which we need — is an algorithm store, where you choose how you see all the conversations. But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

            That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that’s truly decentralized. It’s another app. It’s another app that’s just kind of following in Twitter’s footsteps, but for a different part of the population.

            Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That’s not what I wanted, that’s not what I intended to help create.

            Around the same time, I found Nostr. We don’t know who the leader is, it’s like this anonymous Brazilian. It has no board, no company behind it, no funding. It’s a truly open protocol. The development environment is moving fast. And I gave a bunch of money to them.

            Day by day, I learned that this was actually the path. It emerged from something that was not Twitter-driven, it was a reaction to Twitter’s failures, and I thought that was right as well. That’s what I should help, and that’s what I should support.

            So I just decided to delete my account on Bluesky, and really focus on Nostr, and funding that to the best of my ability. I asked to get off the board as well, because I just don’t think a protocol needs a board or wants a board. And if it has a board, that’s not the thing that I wanted to help build or wanted to help fund.

            this sounds alright, no?

            • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
              6·
              3 months ago

              But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

              This bit I don’t get. Even on Lemmy and Mastodon we need moderation tools and arguably the current provisions aren’t fit for purpose. It’s not something that can just be pushed to the individual users and most hobbyists who want to spin up public servers don’t want to be spending their time wading through reports and CSAM. How to provide a safe environment for users is still an unsolved problem in the fediverse so it’s no wonder people drift to corporate controlled servers which say least nominally have the resources to do something about it.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    this article doesnt even mention the biggest problem which is trust and safety throwing trans users under the bus to protect a serial harasser and paedophile apologist like jesse singal.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      verified identities using government id schemes, loads already exist, i verified my account on LinkedIn for free

        • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          yeah we would have to trust the anonymization and security of the authentication services but i see no other way to defeat the bots

          i think there could be many other benefits as well if it works