You should stay away from #Bluesky, not actively help Jack Dorsey make his next billion & build his power as an owner of another social media empire.

Dorsey helped fund Musk's takeover to the tune of $1 billion, making him one of Musk's top backers (after Qatar).

He owns part of Twitter.

He & Musk planned Musk's takeover at Twitter. They are collaborators, not competitors.

https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110286207887749108

>Edit to add Dave Troy's piece https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Dorsey will be happy with one arm of #Bluesky being used by his advisor Ali Alexander to plan the next armed Proud Boys/GOP attack on the Capitol building - and the other arm being used by you to fruitlessly bemoan SCOTUS corruption & the New Jim Crow voting restrictions, & what he & Musk undoubtedly delight, behind closed doors, in referring to as "woke nonsense." The $ & power asymmetry makes this work for the GOP. No content moderation means no pesky Congressional hearings for him & Musk.

Mastodon progressives

This long-term structural issue is prob most important: https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110647446788441301

Jack's "solution" to Nazis using SM to do mob violence against their targets is "algorithm choice" which is intentionally anti-social & favors proliferation & stochastic terrorism.

Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Jack re-invented a federating protocol to avoid ActivityPub. So #Bluesky could make a walled garden.

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images @[email protected] @[email protected] The other thing I've been trying to focus attention on, is that Jack's "solution" to abusers in social media - "algorithmic choice" - is intentionally anti-social & inherently biased towards increasing hate speech &stochastic terrorism. Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html And the reason Jack re-wrote an analog for ActivityPub protocol was so he could capture the audience.

Mastodon progressives
@chargrille What exactly is "algorithm choice"?

@toxtethogrady Designing a personal algorithm so you don't see stuff you don't like.

Obviously that does nothing to stop the proliferation of Nazi rhetoric that stigmatizes & drives hatred against women, POC, LGBTQ people, Jewish people, etc. and online radicalization campaigns & threats to other users. In fact, it will allow them to recruit more efficiently, with less pushback.

I think it's tailor-made to increase Nazi reach.

@chargrille We all kind of do that anyway by using "block" lists and "mute" buttons. I remember running into adversaries on Twitter who proudly announced to me and their compatriots that they were blocking me. Once they did that they ceased to exist, and I could taunt them behind their back (and their friends who hadn't blocked me could see that). I always referred to them as having run off screaming into the night because they couldn't handle the truth...

But I digress. I come from the old MSNBC boards, where there were no rules in that knife fight and there were no moderators, so any old extreme posting was okey-dokey. Eventually, MSNBC got rid of those old message boards, and you can probably understand why - it all got out of control...

@toxtethogrady

Jack's approach is a much more extreme version than individual use of mute & block, because it makes types of content invisible [like "hate speech"] rather than making ALL the user's speech invisible. So individual users lose the incentive not to engage in hate speech. AND it allows users who are open to not blocking hate speech to be invisibly radicalized.

The Fediverse method of dealing with it is much better (see Escaping Tech piece) because it's community based.