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 threadJust BobyApr 18, 2024

@OutOnTheMoors 🙋🏻‍♀️I went to see the dumpster fire bc I’m an asshole but all I see so far ppl thanking the feature and being happy about it?

What am I missing (or it’s just that the user interface makes me go bananas too quick)

Show threadCrazyMyraApr 18, 2024
@boby_biq Labelling wouldn't be problematic if everyone used it as intended.
But why I sound off about techbros is because they don't take enough cognisance that people online are often awful and abuse features. Especially as an environment becomes more competitive or confrontational.
It's like leaving a backdoor to your system open and then just shrugging when it's exploited.
Show threadJust Boby
@OutOnTheMoors They’re riding on a different vibe: mastodon riding on the “oh so righteous, so pure” vibe 🙄, and Bluesky is the “have a long drag on a joint, inhale, and exhale- I’ve got cool ideas, what can possibly go wrong, man”  vibe, I guess.
Apr 18, 2024 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadCrazyMyraApr 18, 2024
@boby_biq Yeah. And the engagement is increasingly what I call "t-shirt tagging": people replying to posts with a "zinger" to get noticed.
They aren't responding to the OP at all - they don't bother to like or boost - they're just trying to grab onto the coat-tails of a popular post. It's like those irritating t-shirt spammers on Twitter with their links to dropshipping garbage sites 😂