This crashout has been really something. She posted again. She just can’t help herself
https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3m2c7ge42us2t
Huh, briefly there she does seem to acknowledge the role the system itself plays in exacerbating issues. But in her mind the “issue” is the outrage itself rather than the thing theyre outraged over. I think it’s fine to be outraged by outrageous things. Fighting for someone to be deplatformed due to their dangerous rhetoric falls under that category.
I hate the “harassing people doesn’t convince them” argument. The goal is to pressure you with collective action into reducing the harm that user is doing. I don’t need to “convince” you, I’m taking advantage of you being a for profit platform to show you the negative potential consequences of not taking action.
That said, to a degree I do like some of the ways bsky handles decentralizing moderation, but I hope she sees there are legitimate critiques to be had with it, and in any case she, as a member of the bsky company which still has significant centralized influence over the platform, cannot just handwave the calls for bsky to do something by saying “well, there’s decentralized moderation so y’all can just share a blocklist or something” when that’s not what the issue is.
Agreed, I think bsky has been small enough to be able to play both sides without much criticism so far - on one hand, they can say the platform isn’t as toxic as the other (the other being owned by an actual nazi) & then on the other whenever there is legitimate criticism of their own moderation, they say they’re just system architects. One user said it’s like operating public transit & if a user criticizes, they replied with “well you can just get a car” & I tend to agree.
I think this is really just about the diminishing returns that we’re seeing from the reverberations of tech culture believing that they could build a piece of software that would fix the world’s problems. It doesn’t quite work that way, & the contradiction between the owners of these social networks & their content creators is quite sharp at this point. Once they create a solution that reproduces the same exact problems, they react with apathy & resentment as if they did their part & the users just can’t behave.
Ultimately for me it’s frustrating because while I learn most from lemmygrad about why the world is the way it is, I do enjoy being able to see the regular people on the internet, especially in the US. Seeing shit like this, even though it’s inevitable under a capitalist system, sucks.
Guess this doesn’t apply to me. It’s over, my main account is gone and good riddance.
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