the reporter going “so just to be clear, you guys are frogs now because of the other frog? there’s no other significance to the frog thing?? I would love for there to be more to it than that” and the frogs are just like “nah man we’re here to support the original frog”

the interviewer goes “are there people in the world you don’t like?” in this tone of voice that sort of implies “surely not you, Jane Goodall, patron saint of the natural world,” but oh no she was IMMEDIATELY ready with a list of names

Absolutely INSANE to pull out an immediate permaban without warnings on this in particular, ESPECIALLY given the questionably lax moderation the site has had on SO MANY other issues.

This is awfully demoralising as someone who has put a lot of time into community building here. I'm so pissed.

real lesson in bag fumbling! bluesky only hit any kind of mainstream success because they happened to benefit from musk's shitty behavior and there was already an early adopter base of ex-twitter people on here encouraging their friends to come over. most startups never get that lucky!

they absolutely could have launched paid subs last year. people wanted to give them money! but they were like no we want our weird little thing and it's not that and now they're crashing out over the slightest criticism

Like I don’t know how you simultaneously undercut your argument for being a meaningfully decentralized platform while *also* doing a racism while *also* doing a transphobia while *also* proving to everyone you’re too petty and involved in forum drama to hold your position but Graber pulled it off