This has made me more relieved about things than anything else this year

I like "quick brown fox" a lot from a specific video game that used it to crack open a whole layer of secrets

sad that people got split up so much. I just don't enjoy bsky somehow

been a while

hahaha 😅

its norms aren't good enough to kick the fash out. therefore it has fash in it.

this is unlike many other communities! eg the resist lib community is large and generally full of sincere people, which has led to it being by some margin the most successful US political movement in the 21st century

More importantly, I think it's that there are more than enough bad actors to completely overwhelm the system. HN, which really just has a civility bar, is full of somewhat intelligent bigots who easily pass that bar.

sure, they banned that Nazi and the transphobe that was harassing people, but those are just the stupid ones. no amount of tool-building or composable moderation or whatever is going to replace banning the right on sight, *especially* the polite ones

serious attempts at moderation must grapple with this. the global right is an inherently anti-social, psychopathic institution. the only reasonable way to moderate a community is to strongly signal that the right is and always will be unwelcome. I don't see how bluesky is going to do that

"people aren't bad, they just do bad things" oh I wish I were as innocent about the world as you.

there are actual real psychopaths in this world, and those people disproportionately hold positions of power, and they will use any weapon or tool at their disposal to do harm. that includes being nice

Mastodon really struggles with this as well and just barely manages to have some sort of vibe.

the world is just full of shit people. we don't deserve and will never get good things