Good news for me, my signed first edition shiny antifa membership card has skyrocketed in value.

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

Super disappointed. This was a very useful tool. Hoping someone builds a replacement!

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Sounds good but there must be a downside?

anyone who is reading this thread because they were interested and genuinely invested in this being a good product, please, treat yourself, please go buy fightmagicitems.rocks and read that instead. @aidanmoher.com thank you for being an excellent author oh my lord

Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

Like I'm sorry, but the AI weirdos have DELIBERATELY created this confusion 100% so they can capitalize on the assumptions people who don't understand the difference will make.

This was the endgame of all the AI bros! no one knowing the difference!

Sorry they created this mess BUT THEY DID!

Huge part of the issue right here. Blue Sky team posting through it with takes that read as contradictory or incompatible, at best, and openly combative to the concerned userbase, at worst. This site is in desperate need of a comms person who can give the team lessons in unified messaging.

hades gals 💀🌸

"we don't use your data for training AI, we just feed it to these other bozos who we don't even even provide any input on for the quality of their model or tuning for our site"

IT'S BEYOND OPTICS AT THIS POINT. HOW ARE THERE MORE RAKES

Schrodinger's Moderation: "Mods only have 30s to look at posts, so errors happen." AND "AI makes moderation decisions, and we're not responsible for the model"

So. Where does the buck stop again?

Automation labeling individuals with prosthetics as “adult content” needs to be understood as ableism, full stop

And we call this;

"Shooting yourself in the foot"

God I cannot emphasize this enough-

Hire a PR firm.

They will likely immediately tell you to backtrack on everything you've said and done, and tell you to backtrack on your guidelines, because at this point, that is the ONLY way to salvage this.

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

every time i see a bluesky employee make a snarky post/reply about a site issue i toss another piece of popcorn into my mouth

i am 370% popcorn at this point

Andreessen Horowitz have made an offer for Bluesky, haven’t they? That’s why we’re seeing what we’re seeing?

That's where I'm at. Regardless of where you stand on the validity of the ban it clearly shows that the protocol isn't nearly as open as Jay and the team make it out to be. If it was always about the open protocol, why are moderation actions like this so hard to decouple?

It basically make atproto non viable right? Like federate all you want, put in all the independent work you want, the bluesky admins still have final say over your moderation.

To get away from that you have to put in a level of money and labor that you could just host your own site at that point.

Watching the C4 Crit Role premiere with Bex and god I still can't get over how good that cold open is

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person