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   Laurie Voss (seldo@alpaca.gold)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 05:03:11 JST Laurie Voss

   What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 05:03:10 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @seldo

     In fairness to them, they're trying to build in public, and didn't expect this much attention yet.

     They opened their invite-only private beta, where they hoped to control a tiny user list, before they'd even implemented blocks.

     Sign-ups are protected by sign-up keys, but unfortunately, they didn't rate-limit their sign-up API, and the keys were quite short, so someone wrote a script to brute-force guess sign-up keys. So some nazis got in. 🤷🏿♂️

     Blocks are being implemented this week.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 06:21:14 JST pettter

     in reply to

     • mekka okereke :verified:
     • Mary Branscombe
     • Luis Villa

     @marypcbuk @luis_in_brief @mekkaokereke @seldo lmao I wonder if anyone else has ever thought or had to deal with any of these issues before who they might have learned from

     techies and reinventing the wheel time and time and time and fucking time against I swear

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     Mary Branscombe (marypcbuk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 06:21:15 JST Mary Branscombe

     in reply to

     • mekka okereke :verified:
     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief @mekkaokereke @seldo thread from CEO Jay on blocks

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     Mary Branscombe (marypcbuk@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 06:21:16 JST Mary Branscombe

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     • mekka okereke :verified:
     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief @mekkaokereke @seldo that doesn't feel fair; they were working on block and had already said it was planned for probably next week and folks who were invited or got in through the waitlist had a chance to make the choice of joining something missing a LOT of features. their mistake here is a badly protected signup system: that's what I'd view as casting doubt on how prepared they are to do this thing

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 06:21:18 JST Luis Villa

     in reply to

     • mekka okereke :verified:
     • Mary Branscombe

     @mekkaokereke @marypcbuk @seldo “We’ll get to that after the first few hundred thousand invites” says a lot about what your priorities will be later when you have to do it right; specifically it says “it’ll be an afterthought that we only do as much as needed to avoid bad press”.