David GerardThe Newskies' Guide to Safety and Privacy on Bluesky
https://write.as/y5kzn9moj6ohs30l.md
tl;dr fucking everything is public and already scraped, including things that are insane to make public like your block list
Martin Kelly@davidgerard ahaha holy fuck.
@potatogunkelly bluesky was founded by Jack Dorsey, who personally intervened to stop neo-Nazis being blocked from Twitter, to make a social network that neo-nazis could not be blocked on
he funded a company staffed by lesswrong rationalist blockchain bros who just happen to have a lot of literally neo-Nazi friends
they have the coolest fuckin' userbase, but the people running the company are absolutely going to fuck it up harder than Twitter
all platforms are grass, tomorrow we die, so shitpost the day
@davidgerard preaching to the choir mate https://infosec.exchange/@potatogunkelly/110632311451678043
Martin Kelly (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] imagine mastodon, but with no federation run by libertarians and cryptobros, funded by the same billionaire who said Elon Musk is the only person who could save Twitter.
@potatogunkelly the astoundingly cool userbase is important and the only reason to stick around
i can't imagine how pissed off they are that this is their userbase
@davidgerard that fact that most* of them seem to be unable to learn from 15 years of lessons makes the “cool people” less of a draw for me, perhaps unsurprisingly.
apalu@davidgerard @potatogunkelly is the userbase really that cool? i heard the invite system mainly let terminally online type people in, less so the normal people you would actually have a conversation with who hang around here.
@apalu @potatogunkelly ymmv. it's got queer shitposters going wild and they're great.
@davidgerard @potatogunkelly well i am glad they are having fun, but in my humble opinion scrolling through memes tends to be a retrospectively disappointing way to have spent an afternoon :p
Denis Robert@davidgerard @potatogunkelly there’s a difference between LessWrong and neo-Nazis?
@drobert @potatogunkelly technically!
Compuguy 🐱@davidgerard @potatogunkelly Yes, though they are throttling sign ups still + waitlist and/or invites required...
Jack OvaltradeThis is my favorite thing about the Silly-Conman Valley. These are people who got successful by luckily begging for money to the right person, and killing the competition with deep pockets. But somehow these people borderline think that they're here to save planet with their supposedly genius brains.
I'm looking at you Bill from Microsoft, Elon from Paypal, and the list goes on...
Kat@davidgerard i’m glad you crossposted this because i searched for it on bsky to boost it to the people who really need to see it 😂