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Looks like he’s put up demands and ngl, these are pretty great (im a lil timid about following him myself, so ill just boost and if you’re brave enough you can view it).

bsky.app/profile/bayscholarbae…

For those who don’t wanna view Bluesky, my interpretation is: He’s basically trying to wildcat the big social company’s tech ops people, asking for:
- US fed to uphold the #tiktok ban because the president just throwing out a ban that the congress passed/the SCOTUS upheld is unconstitutional in the US, and for the congress to defend its constitutional authority (and i think we all know how the congress is gonna react. They’ll do nothing if no one holds them accountable)
- relevant to our interests on #Fediverse, points out that now that a US political party has essentially done a hostile takeover of the 4 big microblogging/short form video platforms, they’ll start laying off more workers from all 4 because they’re redundant to them now. Hence the call for wildcat (ironically on inaug day lol)
- also relevant to our interests, points out how difficult it is for big social platforms to run without the tech workers behind the scenes, which i think we’ve all learned out here in federated social lol. Even if you’re conservative they’re gonna lay you off because they don’t need to pay you for 4 different microblog platforms.
- In some of his other discussion SUPER relevant to our interests: he says that if Bluesky squelches the non-violent call to action for the workers of their competition to strike (because it looks like it’s just focused on the 4 microblogs), it demonstrates that Bluesky is just a holding tank to “kettle” people. I speculate that he’s actually hoping that he’ll get blocked so he can say “see, Bluesky is in on it! Why would they help their competition?”

He also gives a bunch of tips for malicious compliance and other direct action for admins who want to participate that aren’t walking off the job or holding signs, so they can participate … well … in a decentralized way lol. This dude is doing old school labor tactics in digital form, this is some “checkerboard strike” level stuff. Mad props to this dude for trying some direct, non-violent, targeted action to uphold democratic norms and worker rights. There’s the *real* masculine energy in the tech workforce. 👀

Like I said lol, toss a coin to your admin Witchers these social spaces really can’t function without them.