https://bsky.app/profile/tendermiasma.com/post/3mn3g2ey3m225
transcript
deenom: Bluesky says this label will leave in 22 days, so this seems like a punishment for some undisclosed bad behavior.
tendermiasma: And there it is, staff’s new favorite silencing tool
I was a social media manager for about 5 years. When the migration to Bluesky was happening I was spouting as much as I could the red flags I saw and how it was going to speed run what Twitter did along other things. I’ve been right every step of the way, and I pissed off someone bad enough we don’t talk anymore.
I don’t know who is lamer in the bluesky discussion. The company that is still mad that they ended up popular with a soft left and trans audience rather than crypto grifters and libertarians, or the userbase that has spent years being mad that the site isn’t mastodon while also refusing to even consider mastodon.
Unlike you authoritarian tankies, we don’t ban people for saying things we don’t like. We just silence them by labeling their account and posts as adult content without disclosing why.
“ackshually freedom of speech only applies to government censorship”
“What does it matter that all “public” spaces are under corporate ownership?”
Great open protocol
Does the adult filter mean that you can only view posts sorted under that category if you hand over all your real life information?
“Centralized social media wrapped in the poached skins of open source and federation follows it’s true nature. More at 11.”
How’s that decentralized social media app Bsky going?
There is wafrn.net which also can use atproto fwiw.
All posts for weeks at time with an ever-present “Adult content does not include nudity” overlay - Reddit-level shit.
Did reddit ever do something like this?
They had shadow banned stuff yeah.
quarantines maybe
No maybe - definitely. I read that quarantined subs slowly died from being unfindable to new users - as mods & admins perma-banned users for spurious reasons, they had difficulty getting back into subs they used to be subscribed to under a new username.
That’s true except in the case of this site’s predecessor r/chapotraphouse, CTH continued to show rapid growth even after quarantine, nothing could stop it and it was becoming a phenomena so they had to outright ban it instead because they didn’t want a space dominated by communists to be a major force on the site.
It was my understanding that quarantined subs were unfindable - how did new users find it?
Quarantine would hide a subreddit from showing up in search or normal algorithm listings but people still talked about it and linked to it everywhere on the site due to sheer infamy.
Kinda like nobody can stop talking about hexbear on lemmy even though they’ve all defederated from us, the ghost of communism lives rent free in their heads, haunting them.
Directly typing the name, probably.
I don’t think that’s true.
That’s what I read, with the whole idea being not accused of censoring and yet advertisers couldn’t find them with a search. If that’s not how it worked, then what exactly did quarantining subs do?
Jack why did you do this?
