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by wiredone 145 days ago
“toxicity and inflammatory” does a lot of heavy lifting for Blueskys moderation team.

i find it’s pretty toxic, in a militant way… that doesn’t get moderated of course.

That’s “free expression” when it’s about topics blueskyers all agree on.

waits to be called a nazi

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This accusation would have a little more zing, if the person who owns the other place wasn't posting about white replacement almost every day.

Pretty shitty that ones choice of social media is so politicized but if you must pick a side... I will pick the non-nazi side, thank you very much!

Yeah, not sure why I'd spend a minute of my time on a social media site where the owner's boosted comments literally make me feel physically ill.
still hard to believe that this was supposed to be a decentralized social media app, and now it's like one giant subreddit
What topics cause you the most problems?
The kind of topics that were popular in Germany circa 1939.
Case in point. "Everyone to the right of Marx is a Nazi" seems to be the rallying cry of their moderation strategy and user base.

Which is fine -- build what you want to be a part of -- but don't pretend it's the neutral position.

What about the moderation strategy indicates that?
Try participating in discussions with a politically disapproved position and see how fast you're shadow-banned.

And no, I'm not talking about "1939 Germany" views.

Did that happen to you, or to anybody you can point to?
Really? Anecdotal as well, but I see tonnes of liberals and similar free market oriented people all over that website... I wonder if whether our preferences are giving us different impressions of the user base?
The primary differentiator for me is that bsky does not have a central algorithm, you only see content from people you follow or explicitly go looking for. Yes the "top today" overall feed is very left biased, but the default is an empty feed that you have to populate yourself.

You can't complain about content on bluesky because unlike every other platform you must choose which feeds you use.