@lunareclipse this is about bluesky right

I hope this won’t need to be discussed, however

I really don’t think we should ditch a service ran by a non profit just because they generally refuse to moderate based on off-site behavior (and especially based on screenshots).

Or based on one sentence from a single moderator replying to a thread consisting mostly of various forms of “so you’re intentionally letting abusive users be on the platform?”

I am not exaggerating with the previous paragraph, I will not elaborate on where this happened, but if it’s about you just calm down and think how it sounds. You won’t get anywhere by starting a conversation with accusations and an assumption of bad faith, people will just get defensive and/or stop listening to you.

Running a public service means you get a lot of moderation reports, and handling them well is really hard, time consuming, and sometimes soul-crushing. You often can’t make perfect decisions, just tradeoffs.
A factor in making those decision is avoiding moderator burnout, something which commercial platforms often don’t bother with and instead solve by churning through desperate contract workers and leaving them with lifelong PTSD after. You can imagine why this doesn’t work for volunteer-run projects.

TL;DR: please let’s not burn down a volunteer run platform for not being perfect especially when they’re really trying to do well and the alternatives literally have CEOs bootlicking nazis

@apophis i’ve always wanted to try to sit down and chat with jk rowling. you would probably be the next best thing, if only because the next closest thing would be a transphobic shithead who isn’t jk rowling

Reason for this is that, apparently, Bluesky PBLLC will just let The Gestapo 2 (ICE, to be specific) on there without thinking twice about it. And even verify them.

We sincerely hope that projects like Blacksky can create safe spaces for themselves with the tech, however, Bluesky as it is right now is dead to us.