Coincidentally, the CEO of bluesky posted this infographic today. Maybe some of these things will not hold up in the long run, but we’ll see.

https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/478/385/983/255/387/original/47310b3e334f918c.jpeg

They have recently said that they are going to have a subscription model for some extra features to curb the need to throw in ads and whatnot. We’ll definitely see how that all works. But I do feel like they might be at least trying to set up a business model that doesn’t totally suck. All to be determined at this point.

All I’m saying is that the moderation tools are NOT the same.

Manually blocking hundreds of people (where those people can still see your posts [how twitter does it]) instead of subscribing to one list isn’t the same, and being able to remove your quoted posts from some troll is not the same.

There is an argument to be had about who funding the app and what that means, but there’s no denying that Bluesky’s moderation tools from the user level are streets ahead of anything twitter has ever done.

Here is one. I’m sure there are several.

https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s

Edit: Just came across a post with several useful block lists for maga, nazis, other shitheads:

https://bsky.app/profile/azalben.bsky.social/post/3lawjdxpick2l

Twitter didn’t have block lists. You could block people individually, but not as a group.

I don’t know if hate speech will be able to flourish on Bluesky like on twitter simply because of the moderation tools.

There’s already a giant blocklist of maga idiots who have tried to move over, and if you follow that list you’ll never see their posts. And the unwritten rule of the place is to block anyone who is trying to start stuff or that you simply don’t like. On twitter that felt taboo for some reason, but on Bluesky that’s normal - as it should be, really.

I wonder how many thousands of pentagon people voted for trump.

Shoulda become president first THEN leaked classified documents to russia. He’d be fine in that case.

The good news is that users can create block lists you can subscribe to, so if there becomes a lot of spam, I’d assume some good lists will start showing up.

For example, there’s a great MAGA block list. Don’t want to see any MAGA garbage? Just sub to that list and you’ll never see them.

Ha, good luck.

Didn’t we then pay them subsidies after trump screwed them?

Wasteful.

What a fucking waste.

So a child today suffering from this just has to wait several more years for it take effect?

That headline again: “Party of Snowflakes Melt”

This was my thought as well.

In 2020 they really pushed hard to tell their supporters to not early vote or vote by mail.

And this time they realize that those things are fine (and good and easy, though let’s never admit that!) so there’s a big upswing.

Also just no pandemic as well.

Is trump the market favorite because only people with weird gambling addictions care about any of these betting odds, and those folks overlap the trump supporters circle in the venn diagram?

I’m so fortunate I had a dentist that isn’t a piece of shit. Nothing she ever said sounded far fetched or like she was trying to get some cash. She unfortunately retired last year, but the other dentists at the practice seem good so far.

Long story short, I had an endodontist say I needed to pull a tooth because there was an infection, and my new dentist could do that. But he said he didn’t think it needed to be done and to go to another endodontist. Turns out the second opinion was to just get a root canal. In and out in fifteen minutes, and I still have my tooth.

So not all dentists are bad!

flips chair around and sits down

“You know who ELSE was a…”

Wait; I don’t think this joke works this time…

True. And that is a lot of people. But I was assuming way more than that based on the headline.

kidRidingBikeAndPuttingStickIntoSpokes.meme

Though the article says they went from 1,900 to 1,700 employees, so not necessarily a huge amount relatively.

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