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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

wow if we can't trust me jack dorsey who can we even trust anymore‽

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

did anyone actually trusted jack dorsey?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

more than you'd think…

[–] ryukendo@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jay sucks too all on her own.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

^ this is an important detail people seem to miss

It quickly became clear that users understood something Bluesky didn’t: Bluesky couldn’t code away social problems on the app. At some point, Bluesky’s leadership would have to do something about users who were openly racist, transphobic, misogynist, or otherwise abusive.

Nevertheless, the CEO’s solution was something she called “compostable moderation,” a skeet labelling system that users with the financial resources and technical know-how could develop and deploy on their own little corner of Bluesky. In practice, this was a way to outsource responsibility. Rather than Bluesky taking accountability for hate speech or death threats, users were expected to moderate themselves

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In short, Bluesky’s moderation is not neutral; it is selective. The platform is quick to silence, censor, or ban users it finds inconvenient or embarrassing, yet consistently unwilling to act against hate speech, misinformation, or other antisocial behaviour.

https://plutopsyche.medium.com/blueskys-ceo-meltdown-how-leadership-continues-to-fail-its-most-marginalized-users-8bfa7a8824b4

It amazes me how babylike some adult humans understanding of the world really is, did they NOT expect that to happen? That is precisely what I figured would happen and I am no genius, it is just common sense?

https://abovethelaw.com/legal-innovation-center/2022/11/04/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

Congratulations, you have completed the game…. Just kidding! It never ends. It only gets worse, and you will make mistakes, and people will get mad and personally blame you and insist that you are deliberately trying to “censor” their brilliant ideas, and advertisers will get mad, and politicians will pressure you into doing their bidding, and the media will criticize every mistake. You own a social network. Isn’t it fun?

Moderation IS the hard part of running an online community, all the programming and technical details are the easy part with clear answers and rational obstacles.