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Really excellent analysis from @garbageday.email, who’s quietly expanded from “must read to understand internet culture” to “must read for insights on American politics”
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November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Good recap in today’s @garbageday.email
- by Adam Bumas Usually, arguments on Bluesky aren’t newsworthy enough to cover. But an argument that started last week has drawn in the site’s developers and owners, led to action outside the website’s moderation system, and has probably been the most serious test of the platform’s social fabric since the post-Trump 2.0 exodus. Like most Bluesky beef, it started with people who couldn’t agree on how seriously to take a post. Jay Graber, the site’s cofounder and CEO, was joking around last week with a developer and board member for the site, Jerry Chen. Chen quoted the old “So you hate waffles?” meme about Twitter arguments, and Graber replied “Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.” User antioccident then asked, “have y’all banned Jesse Singal yet or”, and Graber replied “WAFFLES.” It is true that this is the usual way Bluesky arguments start, but it’s also not weird to hold the person in charge of a website to more serious standards on that website. As Anil Dash wrote, “If you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period.” But Graber has unfortunately responded by posting through it, making jokes that were picked up by Singal (the anti-trans journalist who became the most-blocked account on Bluesky last year after attempting to “colonize” the platform). To make things worse, Graber is also seriously defending herself, trying to frame pissing off the site’s users as an effort to drive decentralization, while also allegedly hiding posts and banning users who criticize her, without the site’s usual moderation system. Given the people who are still angry about Singal’s presence were already unhappy with Bluesky’s new community guidelines, it’s easy to see why this is such an adversarial move by Graber that she’s even drawing comparisons to Something Awful’s Lowtax.
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...we have what now?
October 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Still impressed there are not one, not two, but three different muscular Garfields
October 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM