Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
Be careful about assuming why Bluesky is censoring any particular thing, particularly when this assumption shifts responsibility away from the company.
A lot of the time, it really is a bad managerial decision, also, assumptions can serve as a distraction from combating censorship more effectively.
Let's suppose a company quietly decided they didn't like AI, because they reckon a company didn't get permission from the artists whose works the model was trained on.
So, inexplicably accounts which post such content inexplicably start getting permanently banned but no one really knows why. That is what Bluesky's moderation is like.
One of the issues with Bluesky not actually being decentralized is that they can randomly start engaging in rather arbitrary forms of censorship.
So far, the company doesn't seem to operate any more clearly than any other Silicon Valley firm.
Once again, if you are complaining about censorship in some obscure place on page ten, chances are we are not going to see it.
https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463
https://qoto.org/@olives/113430265249215742
I should get back to working on this master post (which includes "porn is spooky" scientific debunkers) sometime. I haven't posted it in a while so I'll do so again.
If Bluesky is engaging in puritanical censorship, is so-called "realism" an apparent factor in the censorship? Or is it more general than that?
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/prison-journalism-jail-newspapers-giving-voice-to-prisoners/104399728
"Prison newspapers have overcome bans to give incarcerated Australians a voice and connection to outside"
#auspol #FreeSpeech
I'm curious if there are any particular patterns in the puritanical Bluesky censorship. Not to excuse it, of course, but to figure out how to combat it more effectively.
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Is Bluesky still weirdly puritanical? It's hard for me to immediately tell as it might involve a problematic algorithm or strangely specific moderation.
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https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/dead-rising-deluxe-remaster-demo/9p3q7pjn457x
Looks like a demo for a Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster got banned. The name of the company on the ban list is in another language but it translates to Capcom.
#FreeSpeech #auspol
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Calling out censorship is important.
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With the Overlord anime / novel (frankly, someone should probably read the novel as it has extra information), the main character is very powerful with loyal followers. However, he is also comically bad at management and doesn't know what is going on a lot of the time, and is kind of like "yeah, yeah" to his subordinates.
If he says any random word though, the subordinates take it as some brilliant plan which they implement and are like "brilliant plan, supreme one". Sometimes, he accidentally does something "brilliant".
His background was just an ordinary salaryman who liked to play MMO games before being transported.
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https://github.com/dooly123/Basis
"As a framework, Basis provides you with all the necessary tools to create your own #SocialVR Platform to use as a Ready-To-Use Foundation to be built upon. This allows you to focus on your vision, without needing to do any heavy lifting to get going. Basis is designed with great care to remove any barrier that previously made VR projects notoriously hard to set up.
We are a MIT-Licensed #OpenSource project with a focus on open development and full access to any optional modification desired or required."
#BasisVR #VR #anime
Once again, it's a Silicon Valley tech firm with what sounds like comically bad moderation practices.
Someone is accusing Bluesky of still engaging in puritanical censorship.
In one anime, they think they are dealing with an AI running things... But, it's actually humans.
I suppose that if ChatGPT starts to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, then we're in trouble.
Joking, of course.
In Lain, the Internet is like a force field which covers everything.
I'm not sure the Bluesky bridge has synchronized every older post made after it went down.
Unfortunately, now that the Bluesky bridge is roughly synchronized up, we aren't going to be able to spend time talking about how the bridge doesn't work.
We'll have to talk about something else. Lol.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
