Guess it's time to post more on Mastodon. Bluesky's decided doxxing is cool. I have PTSD about that after a few run-ins with lying cunts and dipshit moderation on Twitter.
There's been a few examples of doxxing, but now there's co-ordinated "pressure groups" naming and giving full addresses of people it accuses of platform manipulation and misinformation on Twitter. The source is another group on Telegram.
However, it doesn't actually matter who they are. Either a site has rules that forbid the publication of private individuals' details or it doesn't.
The Bluesky mods need to decide if they do.
Otherwise, you're right into the Twitter situation where the rules are only applied if there's the slightest chance the platform will get its arse sued.
And that leaves 99.999% of users at the mercy of anyone who wishes them harm. Yes, you do have to defend those you disagree with if you want any claim to being on the side of justice, not capital.
Here's an example of one of Bluesky's new idiot labellers.
Note that this account can be blocked, but the labeller itself is unaffected by the block. Also note that these accounts' follow/followers do not appear.
If you subscribe, you can select moderation levels for all of the labels shown.
Now imagine if this load of bollocks was falsely labelling people or being used to direct harassment.
Here's how this affects people.
The first image is from my account, where I see no label - because I don't subscribe.
The second shows that this guy has been labelled for "simping".
I checked the account and saw nothing of the sort. This is a harassment label aimed at anyone who interacts with any category that offends the person behind the labeller.
Quite amazing how completely techbros can fuck up without really trying.
Take BlueSky's new labelling system, released late last month. It allows users to create labels for accounts and individual posts.
So you can warn your pals/subscribers about, for example, transphobic accounts or content.
Sounds good, right?
There's two little catches.
Anyone with a few tech skills can set up a labeller. So the transphobes can target trans people, too. And if you feel you've been mislabelled, you have to subscribe to the labelling account to even report it.
But the real lulu is that you can't block a labeller from seeing - and labelling - your account or your posts. A block merely means YOU can't see them on BlueSky.
Way to go to open a whole new harassment vector, dipshits.
Quite ridiculously, the devs are listening to a group of idiots who want to make it impossible to "hide" certain labelled content.
The racists, other assorted fash, misogynists, and antisemites are rubbing their hands in glee.
The El Dorado of Africa story is a good way to understand how Musk succeeded so well in North America.
Telling it to South Africans makes it immediately apparent that the whole family are lunatics. They really did go hunting - year after year - for this mythical place, and everyone knows there's no mountains like that in the Kalahari.
Americans do not necessarily know this, so it can be spun as a thrilling Boys Own adventure instead of something that should attract Child Protection Services.
It would be like going to Moscow each year in search of the Winter Palace. That's in St Petersburg, and the more you insist on Moscow the crazier you seem. Unless your audience knows very little about Russia.
Musk rose to fame on playing on such ignorance in many areas.
Ok, so BlueSky does not have a bookmark feature so apparently there’s a cobbled together feature that if you reply with 📌, it creates a feed of all the posts you’ve replied to with 📌
I’m kind of excited to see how long before this descends into madness. (H/t to @OutOnTheMoors)
Things like the "Emily" account are the main reason I've been so alarmed by the bot build-up on Mastodon over the past few months. (As activity - measured by active accounts - cratered, overall account numbers chugged steadily upwards.)
Look at her replies on Insta. Most of them are from bots. These are the bots being positioned to offer paid-for engagement.
There are a lot of important national elections in the world this year, in my own country as well the UK and US.
There are very few "Russian bots" - farms dedicated to misinformation - but billions that offer fake engagement like this.
"The bots" I keep warning you about are these commercial ones, not direct political meddlers. They "freelance" in politics when they're paid to, or in complex reciprocal deals.
This is exactly what happened on Twitter and Facebook, where getting a topic "Trending" by numbers is ludicrously easy.
And these bots you have followed back are designed to sell you "Emily", not Trump - but they'll do both if the price is right.