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But isn't Bluesky the platform where they didn't want to moderate racism, sexism, ableism and other awful behaviour according to their founder?
I can't keep track of all the crazy developments in the social network space. Best to find a small little (FOSS+federated) niche you like and just ignore the new big fads.
I think that was Notes on Substack. But Bluesky has been fairly unmoderated too.
you are correct, that was Substack. their owner explicitly said they'd be laissez-faire on moderation even when bluntly asked about things like nazis, which looked so bad
@alyaza @Lost_Wanderer I just re-listened to that interview. #ChrisBest didn't explicitly say #SubstackNotes would be laissez-faire--he refused to say anything at all. It seemed to me like they currently plan to be laissez-faire until racism became a serious problem--I'm guessing he refused to answer the question so that he wouldn't give the far right a sound bite to latch onto and then give them explicit license to brigade the website with racist spam. This also makes him not seem like a liar in the event that they tighten moderation rules in the future.
This is surely just PR hype? Nobody can get invites to the site, so how can anyone flock to the place, maybe trickle, slowly?
as far as i'm aware they're slowly working through their backlog but the backlog they have is like 2 million users, making it analogous to the number of people who fled to mastodon back when elon took over twitter originally, so...
not a surprise to see movement by groups that Elon has basically thrown to the wolves, although it's funny that it's happening to be directed at BlueSky (which was the metaphorical old boss that was hardly any better)
yeah i genuinely wonder what advantages they perceive in Bluesky. it seems like Mastodon but proprietary and overall worse
I don't know that they do perceive any advantages, some may only have heard of bluesky while others are indeed moving to mastodon. When a community is forced to leave, they fracture. As an example there already exists blacktwitter.io a mastodon instance with 1200 users compared to the 50,000 of bluesky (unknown how many of those are blacktwitter diaspora).
People leaving for bluesky however is brought to our attention because bluesky has the money for PR who probably pitched this story to NBC.
I think it comes down to the exclusivity (invite-only beta) and some of the big names (e.g. AOC) being on there.
Let them go. While I would love for them to go to the fediverse instead Bluesky is decentralized and not owned by Elon. The fedi is at a point now where there's enough people to have great conversations in about every niche.
I call bullshit, while it is true that black people on the fedi are having a tough time with racism, and considering bluesky, i dont see the community (trans people) that helped build the fedi "flock" anywhere.
I've definitely seen more LGBTQ+ content on the fediverse than anywhere else ever. Kinda surprised me actually.
well they made the fedi, so