Does not make me sad he’s gone, tbh.
FTA:
In the interview, Dorsey claimed that Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes” he made while running Twitter. The entire conversation is long and a bit rambly, but Dorsey’s complaints seem to boil down to two issues:
- He never intended Bluesky to be an independent company with its own board and stock and other vestiges of a corporate entity (Bluesky spun out of Twitter as a public benefit corporation in 2022.) Instead, his plan was for Twitter to be the first client to take advantage of the open source protocol. Bluesky created.
- The fact that Blueksy has some form of content moderation and has occasionally banned users for things like using racial slurs in their usernames.
“People started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter,” Dorsey said. “It’s the thing that’s not Twitter, and therefore it’s great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One of the things he takes offence about is that Bluesy has moderation.
He should know that moderation is needed to be useable by nearly anyone.
Skepticpunk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hope he realizes that having moderation isn’t a choice social media websites get to make anymore. That’s Apple and Google’s choice now. Why? Because in order to have literally any userbase at all nowadays, you have to have an app. Websites barely get used in comparison to phone apps. And if you don’t bother moderating your website and let people send things like racial slurs and child porn unabated, you get kicked off the app stores by Apple and Google. Not to mention that payment companies don’t like those things either.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That situation (apple and Google as sole gatekeepers) is fucked up and should change with the new eu legislation.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yea… no moderation would mean flooding of ads, spam, porn, child porn, etc.
I think it’s dumb af for someone like him to bitch about moderation.
Example:
kbin.social/m/opensource
Versus
sh.itjust.works/c/opensource@kbin.social
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
still new here-- how do you interact with kbin pages while being logged into a different instance? i’m on lemmy.zip and go subscribe and fetch intance but it says page not found
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yikes.
DelicateDorsey@hilariouschaos.com 6 months ago
That’s obviously untrue.
Listen, if you have nothing nice to say about me, then please keep your comments to yourself.
You’re not being very nice, and I don’t me and to be unladylike here, because that’s just not in my dainty character.
But I really think you need to get in touch more with your emotions and your feminine side. I don’t know if you checked out my community yet called the delicate Daisy Den on hilarious chaos.com,
But I’d like to invite you to join us every Thursday for our friendship bracelet making fueling exercises. You could certainly use some hugs and kisses of friendship yourself mister man
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for the invite but I’m good.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 months ago
What is… happening?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What in the misogyny fried hell are you on about?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I don’t know if he’s been taken out of context, but bluesky is supposed to have opt-out moderation, and the ability to opt-in to multiple moderation servers (a little like adlists in ublock et al), which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, but it sounds like they’ve gone further and completely removed stuff, because in reality it isn’t decentralised at all.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Having the ability to opt out of moderation sounds very dangerous.