One of my favorite design decisions in Bluesky is that you can set any label from any labeler to off, warn, or hide, including @moderation.bsky.app. If you think that labeler applies the "Intolerance" label incorrectly, just turn it off.
I don’t think they’re wrong either based on past precedent and their mental model of how most social networks work.
I’d propose that Bsky instead asks the user if they want to view the content or block it, allowing them to change the setting right then and there (and not have to dig), instead of outright saying “Intolerant” and making them jump through hoops every time they want to view it.
Of course anyone who wants to stick around should eventually learn a bit about how the moderation works so they can decide what they want to see and what they don't.
Reddit hit a decent balance by calling it “NSFW” and letting people change the setting as they encounter it.
Kasey links to some examples of how prevalent anon accounts spewing outright racism is in this thread from today: https://x.com/kaseyklimes/status/1862323859321483316
Did you miss the fact that X is a platform based on free speech? People are allowed to out themselves as whatever they want, which is a good thing. The examples you’re linking to have 0 likes on them, so I wouldn’t be all that worried about anonymous teenager provocateurs who are trying to get a reaction out of people.
https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1854015641218355621?lang=e...
X is not actually a free speech platform (e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-bloc...), that’s just a claim they use to dismiss any responsibility for the nazi crap their algorithm promotes.
Personally I’m spending less time there not because of overt racism specifically, but because even innocent posts end up pulled by trolls into adversarial, low-information stupidity.
I’m not trying to convince you to join Bluesky though, if you prefer X I think both Bluesky and X are better if you continue to spend your time there!
Vance dossier had his personal information like address and phone number, and was deleted for doxxing.
How can you say this with a straight face? I am genuinely baffled by people who hold this view.
Just because you say that your platform is all about “free speech” doesn’t mean it is and there are clear actions that X/Elon took which go against that claim.
The primary of which being that posting “cisgender” gets your post flagged and demoted in the algorithm and that Elonjet was banned. How can you seriously claim free speech absolutism when there are direct examples showing the very opposite.
Of course you can’t, since you’re just a conspiracy theorist.
You’re the conspiracy theorist. Conspiracies go hand in hand with your ideologies.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/06/21/musk-sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet#History
Where is your evidence?