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What’s preventing Bluesky from eventually getting all the same trolls and being just as toxic?

SR2Z 2y ago
The fact that it's not run by a "free speech absolutist" who actually just wants to see more conservative attacks on liberals on the platform.
- lazyeye 2y ago
  Or to rephrase "who wants to see the platform not limited to attacks on conservatives only"
  - hn_acker 2y ago
    What kind of platform are you talking about? Not pre-Elon Musk Twitter, I hope [1]. > We have, of course, discussed all this before, but now the Washington Post got its hands on a video recording of an internal Twitter meeting right before the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in which they discussed how to handle the growing calls for violence. > Nothing in the video is surprising, as it all confirms what’s been said before, but it does provide more evidence. The video, and testimony from some people involved in this and related meetings, were part of why the January 6th Committee highlighted just how far Twitter staff bent over backwards to protect Trump and conservatives on the platform. > And, it’s confirming what a former Twitter trust & safety employee testified under oath, about how when they saw a tweet by Donald Trump that clearly violated the site’s policies, the decision Twitter’s leadership made was to rewrite the rules to effectively exempt Trump’s tweet. > That’s not even getting into the many studies, both internal and external to Twitter, that showed no evidence of anti-conservative bias in Twitter’s moderation policies. In fact, Twitter’s own research showed that it favored conservative tweets, with its algorithm promoting them more than non-conservative tweets. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-reveals-twitter-bent-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-and-pro-trump-insurrectionists/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...
  - dyauspitr 2y ago
    They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.
    - lazyeye 2y ago
      I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.
krapp 2y ago
Nothing, they're already showing up just to own the libs.
rsynnott 2y ago
It has better moderation tools; it will likely get all the same trolls, but you won't have to look at them if you don't want to. In particular, mass-blocking is a first-class feature (it never was on Twitter, and then Musk's API and other changes broke it almost completely).

SR2Z 2y ago

The fact that it's not run by a "free speech absolutist" who actually just wants to see more conservative attacks on liberals on the platform.

lazyeye 2y ago
Or to rephrase "who wants to see the platform not limited to attacks on conservatives only"
- hn_acker 2y ago
  What kind of platform are you talking about? Not pre-Elon Musk Twitter, I hope [1]. > We have, of course, discussed all this before, but now the Washington Post got its hands on a video recording of an internal Twitter meeting right before the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in which they discussed how to handle the growing calls for violence. > Nothing in the video is surprising, as it all confirms what’s been said before, but it does provide more evidence. The video, and testimony from some people involved in this and related meetings, were part of why the January 6th Committee highlighted just how far Twitter staff bent over backwards to protect Trump and conservatives on the platform. > And, it’s confirming what a former Twitter trust & safety employee testified under oath, about how when they saw a tweet by Donald Trump that clearly violated the site’s policies, the decision Twitter’s leadership made was to rewrite the rules to effectively exempt Trump’s tweet. > That’s not even getting into the many studies, both internal and external to Twitter, that showed no evidence of anti-conservative bias in Twitter’s moderation policies. In fact, Twitter’s own research showed that it favored conservative tweets, with its algorithm promoting them more than non-conservative tweets. [1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-reveals-twitter-bent-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-and-pro-trump-insurrectionists/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...
- dyauspitr 2y ago
  They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.
  - lazyeye 2y ago
    I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.

krapp 2y ago

Nothing, they're already showing up just to own the libs.

rsynnott 2y ago

It has better moderation tools; it will likely get all the same trolls, but you won't have to look at them if you don't want to. In particular, mass-blocking is a first-class feature (it never was on Twitter, and then Musk's API and other changes broke it almost completely).