Bluesky Can Ban Whoever They Want! But They Won’t Stop Me From Saying What I Think. I Think The World Would Be A Better Place Without Elon Musk.
Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs
Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in account usernames. Many users — particularly Black users — are frustrated that Bluesky hasn’t apologized for allowing racial slurs to slip through its moderation tools even though they violate the platform’s community guidelines. “Our community guidelines published yesterday reflect our values for a healthy community, and we’re working on becoming better stewards every day,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said in a post on Saturday.
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
Robin Berjon (@robin.berjon.com)
Ok — I've seen enough. #WSocial is the politics of Elon Musk meets the accountability of Mark Zuckerberg.
Why Not Bluesky
As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse.
Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.
How to use Bluesky, the Twitter-like social app taking on Elon Musk's X | TechCrunch
Bluesky is continuing to blow up. The Twitter-like service and alternative to Elon Musk's X, has now surpassed 16 million users after seeing rapid growth
The sanewashing of Elon Musk - Lawyers, Guns & Money
As Jamelle Bouie points out, Elon Musk spends a great deal of time on the social media site he owns both personally pushing and amplifying themes directly derived from prominent works of violent white supremacy, attracting very little attention from the mainstream press: Over the past month in particular, he has adopted the imagery of […]
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
They’re gonna try to ban Bluesky
Matt Novak
Fox News compares Bluesky to energy weapons: "China and Russia classify—in the same grouping as pulsing and sonar type weapons that sort of impede the brain—these types of digital platforms and algorithms because they attribute it to a judgment impairment. A softening of your literal brain tissue."
We need better ways to sell people on decentralization, AT Protocol, and Bluesky than telling them open networks mean they won't have to suffer through losing yet another platform to an Elon Musk.
Decentralization is Insurance
www.aaronrosspowell.comguys this is why we can’t have nice things “Naturally, X owner Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino have capitalized on this unrest, with the former posting that Bluesky is a “bunch of super judgy hall monitors” and the latter proclaiming that X is the “true” global town square.
Bluesky backlash misses the point | TechCrunch
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