Agreed, I think bsky has been small enough to be able to play both sides without much criticism so far - on one hand, they can say the platform isn’t as toxic as the other (the other being owned by an actual nazi) & then on the other whenever there is legitimate criticism of their own moderation, they say they’re just system architects. One user said it’s like operating public transit & if a user criticizes, they replied with “well you can just get a car” & I tend to agree.
I think this is really just about the diminishing returns that we’re seeing from the reverberations of tech culture believing that they could build a piece of software that would fix the world’s problems. It doesn’t quite work that way, & the contradiction between the owners of these social networks & their content creators is quite sharp at this point. Once they create a solution that reproduces the same exact problems, they react with apathy & resentment as if they did their part & the users just can’t behave.
Ultimately for me it’s frustrating because while I learn most from lemmygrad about why the world is the way it is, I do enjoy being able to see the regular people on the internet, especially in the US. Seeing shit like this, even though it’s inevitable under a capitalist system, sucks.
Agreed, I think bsky has been small enough to be able to play both sides without much criticism so far - on one hand, they can say the platform isn’t as toxic as the other (the other being owned by an actual nazi) & then on the other whenever there is legitimate criticism of their own moderation, they say they’re just system architects. One user said it’s like operating public transit & if a user criticizes, they replied with “well you can just get a car” & I tend to agree.
I think this is really just about the diminishing returns that we’re seeing from the reverberations of tech culture believing that they could build a piece of software that would fix the world’s problems. It doesn’t quite work that way, & the contradiction between the owners of these social networks & their content creators is quite sharp at this point. Once they create a solution that reproduces the same exact problems, they react with apathy & resentment as if they did their part & the users just can’t behave.
Ultimately for me it’s frustrating because while I learn most from lemmygrad about why the world is the way it is, I do enjoy being able to see the regular people on the internet, especially in the US. Seeing shit like this, even though it’s inevitable under a capitalist system, sucks.