I Was Canceled by Bluesky. and I Still Don't Know Why

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> has been detected by our systems as being spammy, fake, or inauthentic

Looking at his profile page[0], virtually every single post is a link to an external site. Very few replies or reposts or plain text posts. Compare that to his Twitter profile[1]. I could easily see this as being detected as a spam bot.

> I’m also not one to post stuff to chase cheap clicks

I disagree given this article.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/michaelkruse.bsky.social [1] https://xcancel.com/michaelkruse/with_replies

Yeah, it’s a _really_ odd usage pattern. There are a couple of tweets not fitting this mold today, but before that it’s just a few random news articles a day, with largely useless (LLM generated?) attempts at summaries. I’d absolutely buy that it was flagged by some anti-spam ML; not knowing who he is, if I’d been shown this without context I’d have assumed it was some sort of engagement farming bot.

> has been detected by our systems as being spammy, fake, or inauthentic

The guy wants so badly to have been canceled because his seemingly right wing politics, but honestly, I suspect someone reported him as being an imposter and it probably wasn't obvious to the moderation team that he wasn't.

imagine writing a whole article in the vein of the "which opinions, motherfucker??" goose meme

All hug boxes are doomed to failure. This is just the latest iteration.

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