https://bsky.app/profile/tendermiasma.com/post/3mn3g2ey3m225
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deenom: Bluesky says this label will leave in 22 days, so this seems like a punishment for some undisclosed bad behavior.
tendermiasma: And there it is, staff’s new favorite silencing tool
Unlike you authoritarian tankies, we don’t ban people for saying things we don’t like. We just silence them by labeling their account and posts as adult content without disclosing why.
“ackshually freedom of speech only applies to government censorship”
“What does it matter that all “public” spaces are under corporate ownership?”
How’s that decentralized social media app Bsky going?
If only an open protocol for a decentralized Twitter-like website existed…
There is wafrn.net which also can use atproto fwiw.
I was a social media manager for about 5 years. When the migration to Bluesky was happening I was spouting as much as I could the red flags I saw and how it was going to speed run what Twitter did along other things. I’ve been right every step of the way, and I pissed off someone bad enough we don’t talk anymore.
I don’t know who is less cool in the bluesky discussion. The company that is still mad that they ended up popular with a soft left and trans audience rather than crypto grifters and libertarians, or the userbase that has spent years being mad that the site isn’t mastodon while also refusing to even consider mastodon.
But in exchange for freedom from algorithms and datamining, and the ability to migrate if administration displeases you one must chose an instance and uh look people up.
It’s too much, too much, I just want to complain until someone spoon feeds me solutions to social problems like I am a literal baby incapable of learning or growing yet.
Its so frustrating
“Centralized social media wrapped in the poached skins of open source and federation follows it’s true nature. More at 11.”
Liberals keep winning the fell for it again award.
This image really sent me, it’s the Groucho masks
All posts for weeks at time with an ever-present “Adult content does not include nudity” overlay - Reddit-level shit.
Did reddit ever do something like this?
quarantines maybe
No maybe - definitely. I read that quarantined subs slowly died from being unfindable to new users - as mods & admins perma-banned users for spurious reasons, they had difficulty getting back into subs they used to be subscribed to under a new username.
That’s true except in the case of this site’s predecessor r/chapotraphouse, CTH continued to show rapid growth even after quarantine, nothing could stop it and it was becoming a phenomena so they had to outright ban it instead because they didn’t want a space dominated by communists to be a major force on the site.
It was my understanding that quarantined subs were unfindable - how did new users find it?
Quarantine would hide a subreddit from showing up in search or normal algorithm listings but people still talked about it and linked to it everywhere on the site due to sheer infamy.
Kinda like nobody can stop talking about hexbear on lemmy even though they’ve all defederated from us, the ghost of communism lives rent free in their heads, haunting them.
So true. When I was searching for a new home hexbear had already been defederated but due to the infamy I remembered it and applied. Nice to be part of the ghost.
Directly typing the name, probably.
I don’t think that’s true.
That’s what I read, with the whole idea being not accused of censoring and yet advertisers couldn’t find them with a search. If that’s not how it worked, then what exactly did quarantining subs do?
They had shadow banned stuff yeah.
Jokes on them, my Bluesky account already contains adult content, so I can spout whatever anti-US political stuff I want there!
Does the adult filter mean that you can only view posts sorted under that category if you hand over all your real life information?
How the hell did BS (pun intended) managed became Xitter but worse?
Great open protocol
Jack why did you do this?
