@benroyce
It gets worse, IMO.
Since when has requesting mods to suspend an account been harassment?
At least on fediverse if there is a flurry of reports about an offensive account they take action not complain about it.
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@benroyce The enshittification of BS went faster than I even expected. Maybe they were always fundamentally shitty?
the principals are from crypto dev land and the financial backing is crypto money
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber#Career
also terribly, bluesky uses the crypto bro conjob of making big promises (decentralization) and not delivering on that, but harvesting devotion from cultists on the promise rather than the reality
@benroyce @privateblack @su_liam Pre-2025 cryptobro: down with fiat currency! 2025 cryptobro: yay fiat currency!
Totally consistent.
@benroyce @galacticstone
Lol, I've poked my head up over there too for protest/resistance content, but don't have any plans to do much with that account but observe.
@benroyce Thanks for the context for other posts I've been seeing.
@benroyce anyone who expects Bluesky to do the right thing clearly hasn't been paying attention.
@benroyce I get that at some level. I'm sure all of us have been exposed to people who are smug and not gracious when you admit you're wrong, or like the idea of taking someone down a peg so they can be elevated themselves. There are good reasons to want to avoid that, but it can also be confused with people venting their entirely justified anger at previous wrongdoings.
Let people vent at this guy all they want. He's dehumanizing people, and he should hear it.
@dnkboston @manualdousuario @NatureMC
pride
it's not a deadly sin because someone likes looking in the mirror
it's a deadly sin because when challenged on their behavior, they instead double down and embrace the bad behavior and in fact go to even worse
some people can be introspective and admit they did wrong
some people are "never wrong"
jk rowling seems to be the archetype example of that
all she had to do was go "i was wrong"
some people cannot do that
they deify their self-regard
@benroyce If only they could be hounded to genuine contrition instead, but that doesn't seem to work. @manualdousuario @NatureMC
@dnkboston @manualdousuario @NatureMC
exactly
there is a difference between hounding someone to the ends of the earth for a past transgression they have admitted contrition about and apologized for
and hounding someone to the ends of the earth because they are an active and willing gleeful transphobe
@benroyce There's a level at which it's fair to say, "Okay, that was a long time ago, and that isn't who I am anymore." Thinking about young people who are feeling themselves on social media before they understand, well, the world. Those people deserve a little grace.
This guy? No.
@manualdousuario @NatureMC @benroyce
You could start this whataboutism at any level of criminal behavior. 'Today pedophiles, tomorrow, who knows?'
The account is clearly a bigot and troll harassing large numbers of people. Why doesn't that kind of child get put in the time out corner in your world?
@benroyce
Yes I do see the problem. I have a long BLOCK list on Mastodon too. Some really insufferable people on here. 😆
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