BrianKrebs
I'm sick to death of people telling me I should be on this or that social network that's controlled by some billionaire wingnuts. I'm perfectly happy where I am. And I have a strong feeling that we're going to see something of a great migration here soon (fingers crossed).
Meantime, go ahead..say Bluesky one more time.
Darwin Woodka
@emory @briankrebs and nobody kicks these shitheads off or blocks them huh
Mike Masnick ✅
@darwinwoodka @emory @briankrebs yes, everyone blocks them and they get removed. the account mentioned above is already gone.
If you're going to complain at least be honest. Bluesky does have a trust & safety team and deals with those kinds of accounts.
That account got basically no followers, was blocked by a ton of users quickly and then was banned just as quickly.
Emory
@briankrebs 💯 💯 💯 get a load of this - i replied to someone about #trans 🏳️⚧️ day of remembrance and this asshole shows up in my feed
Mike Masnick ✅
@stoicybele @emory yes, there is a report. and yes, it's effective. What Emory doesn't mention is that account was banned almost immediately.
JustaMom
@emory jfc..on EVERY level..😟 Is there a "report" function there? Is it a viable tool? Thanks for the warning..😬
Darwin Woodka
Well that's good!
BrianKrebs
I've also been thinking of telling my readers on LinkedIn that if they want to follow my rantings for the next month, they can do it over here.
Kevin Beaumont
@briankrebs in my last few blog posts I’ve embedded some of my toots here in the post, where I’d tweeted about it before writing the article. I also included an invite to join in the article, using the Mastodon invite feature. It definitely drove traffic here.
Mike Masnick ✅
@emory @stoicybele i'm not going to argue back on any of this. it sucks., assholes are trying to invade, but the site has set up tools that deal with them. (1) trust & safety team is taking that shit seriously and reports are acted upon quickly. (2) there are numerous subscribable blocklists that have been adding these accounts as quickly as they show up, so people subbed to them are auto-protected against them.
Emory
@stoicybele @mmasnick look i have been publishing on the web since ncsa mosaic, i expect trolls and assholes. i wasn't surprised a nazi transphobe immediately popped up the moment i said something kind about trans people, it was the fact that it's interspersed between posts from people celebrating freedom from nazi phobes and trolls on twitter while nazi phobes wave. i was following five people maybe so the new user experience at bluesky could be very similar to that and that would suck.
JustaMom
@emory @mmasnick Right??! "kiwifarms" was a bad actor(s) since *forever* I've heard; and I imagine you're absolutely correct, they come in *droves*. I don't have that kind of time, energy, capacity myself..I'm just upset it seems like malicious *targeting*..and I'm so sorry it happened to you.
Emory
@mmasnick @stoicybele because i didn't know. i blocked them immediately but took a screenshot, if you do a search for a certain keyword in the tenant fqdn of that asshole there are probably several more just like him. i don't have time to spend curating scumbags on social media.
Mike Masnick ✅
@emory @stoicybele it's cool. I totally get it. No one wants to deal with those fuckers.
Emory
@mmasnick @stoicybele sorry for contributing to the frustration, i was probably overreacting and i didn't mean to end up arguing with someone i respect, i just felt like you were missing my point that the irony of people highfiving themselves over leaving twitter bookended between phobes and nazis was just too much 🤪😆
Evan Prodromou
@tomjennings @briankrebs I'd love to hear from both of you what your rough patches are.
tom jennings
"But it's so pretty there"
I truly despise choosing things solely by technical sweetness, when obvious mechanisms like enshittification are so likely.
But I do get that mastodon has serious problems, hopefully fixed "soon".
It took me six months to really make mastodon work for me, and I was lucky enough to get on a great instance. It's rough here that way.
But "convenience" is such a consumer trap... It's the precise way in which so many things are made ruinous.
Sometimes good things require effort. I personally refuse to be part of corporate media. There are none trustworthy in 2024, and certainly there will be zero in 2025 on.
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