I like it here and I don’t think a mega corp Twitter clone can kill spaces like these.
There is a high level of original thought and engagement, people care about each other and maintain a strong space minimizing bad faith, harassment, and disinfo, which lets people be themselves & build community
also - not a fan of having to use my facebook identity, which is easily tracked by employers, for posting! i don't wanna post my normal content associated with my real identity
Social media is data mining. I'm not installing a data mining app on my phone.
Almost all of them have been caught red-handed doing shady shit they weren't supposed to be doing at some point.
I never understand why people feel so negative about this. It's making sure content is specific and interesting for you so you'll use the app more and it stays free. They aren't stealing your credit card number or reading your doctor's notes.
I would imagine if someone is already using Instagram then it’s an easy pill to swallow since they already know that info.
But for the rest of us it’s A LOT.
And largely unregulated in the US. And that's the problem. But Meta operates as if the rules don't apply to them...there's a reason some in the US Intel community refer to Facebook as FSBook (after the Russian FSB).
People are begging Bluesky to open up completely and I... Think we need more time.
There's been a huge reported uptake in homophobia and transphobia after giving everybody an invite last week, and I want more time to settle and make sure we are ready to protect this community we have.
The early days of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, were... like this is right now.
My real hope is that the BSky team can manage growth and maintain this sense of safety, respect, humor, and community. It's hard. And it *is* really nice around here right now.
I cannot tell what the future will bring, but I do know I kinda burnt out on socmedia a month and a bit ago, went off and did fun things for a bit, and came back renewed - and here is the only place I've come back to.
It might go south in a week or a year, but for now, today, I'm OK with here.
It’ll be good here if they stop treating moderation and trust/safety as an afterthought. Gotta stop letting programmers pretend they’re mods. Leave it to trained professionals
That's because it's still small and the early adopters are curated (friends inviting friends). Once it reaches a certain size and level of heterogeneity all the same old problems will surface and have to be solved.
This happened despite the platform, not because of it. While the red-roping was a part of it, the main reason is because the community has been awesome and has stuck to the 2 cardinal rules to make a space like this work.
1. No Nazis, block them all.
2. NSFW is allowed and accepted.
For obvious reasons this will not be maintained when this moves out of beta.
Reactionaries are champing at the bit to invade this place. They see pushing people who aren't like them out as and making places inhospitable as a sort of natural selection.
It's schoolyard bullying bullshit.
