The Bluesky in the Room
...Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the monumentally bad moderation practices of large scale social media.
We all knew Bluesky was architecturally Twitter 2 and was speedrunning its way to that title but the moderation announcement today was the nail in the "is this place going to be worth a damn or not" coffin for me.
It's not easy to moderate a social platform - I've done it at a microscopic scale compared to something like a twitter or a bluesky but it's hilarious (sadlarious?) how a simple thing like "banning a high profile pest who harasses trans people and evades blocks to do so" is a "we feel it's best that the community moderates itself" from a [checks notes] 'Public Good Corporation'.
And every time these large platforms do a stupid, people who never gave Cohost a chance will proclaim that maybe we should all get off the big platform and make something that (proceeds to describe cohost) - it's hard not to be bothered by it. I'm grateful to be blogging but I REALLY miss what Cohost stood for.
And hey, if you have no idea what I'm talking about you're probably better off. Here's some really fucking good cat antics:
"wh...why is he doing that"
"Is he like....OK??"
"DUDE ARE YOU OK??"