CrazyMyraApr 17, 2024
Quite amazing how completely techbros can fuck up without really trying.
Take BlueSky's new labelling system, released late last month. It allows users to create labels for accounts and individual posts.
So you can warn your pals/subscribers about, for example, transphobic accounts or content.
Sounds good, right?
There's two little catches.
Anyone with a few tech skills can set up a labeller. So the transphobes can target trans people, too. And if you feel you've been mislabelled, you have to subscribe to the labelling account to even report it.
But the real lulu is that you can't block a labeller from seeing - and labelling - your account or your posts. A block merely means YOU can't see them on BlueSky.
Way to go to open a whole new harassment vector, dipshits.
Show threadSabellaApr 18, 2024
@OutOnTheMoors every new thing I learn about BlueSky makes me wonder, will there ever be a breaking point for all my trans friends that ignored me or snapped when I tried to warn them.
Show threadCrazyMyraApr 18, 2024
@gothodile The trans community is becoming increasingly vulnerable as a result of commercial decisions made by BlueSky-the-company.
The terrible thing is that the devs cannot seem to see this, as they are, personally, very supportive of trans rights.
Show threadSabella
@OutOnTheMoors and I'll believe them at their word when it no longer seems to be the case that every new feature they push out to BlueSky just so happens to hurt trans people. but the rot is at the core, they had to implement the ability just to block people after the service went public.
Apr 18, 2024 at 5:05amWeb
Show threadCrazyMyraApr 18, 2024
@gothodile Yup. I haven't changed my settings or altered my way of selecting who to follow, but I'm seeing a whole lot more anti-trans posts recently.
That's because (like on Twitter) people are trolling - or accidentally amplifying trolls via quotes - for engagement, not belief.
It's eye-wateringly stupid behaviour, but encouraged by the devs because they look almost exclusively at traffic to decide how well the site's doing.