Olives @olives@qoto.org

I don't think Bluesky chose a good time to launch either. To play with the ideas they do, they really should have launched in, say, 2015, 2016, or even, 2017. 2018 is already too late.

Considering that Bluesky was founded by a co-founder of Twitter, it's worth looking at the past history of Twitter to get a glimpse as to how they might behave.

Bluesky probably could turn to crap, as some are putting it.

For an idea of how that might pan out, someone only has to look at how Twitter framed themselves as more infrastructure earlier on before moving up the value chain.

Likewise, discourse around Bluesky at this time is dominated by how the infrastructure might work.

Same with particular fetishes tbh.

I wouldn't expect every such person to be a lefty, or to talk about the free market, or other such things. Or to be a member of a particular online community.

Same with particular fetishes tbh.

I wouldn't expect every such person to be a lefty, or to talk about the free market, or other such things. Or to be a member of a particular online community.

I don't think it would be accurate to characterize people who watch porn, or anime fans, or whatever, as belonging to any particular political affiliation.

I'm sure you could find such people in many (these are very popular activities).

Since a fair bit of what I cover relates to civil liberties, this isn't really a source that tells me anything that I wouldn't already know.

Not only is there a video in the corner, it appears on *every page*, even if it has been closed already.

Let's try ANN for a moment.

First, there's a random captcha to even access the site. So, let's engage with that for a bit... Then, there's a video hovering in the corner, but to close that, you first have to scroll through the cookie consent prompt, otherwise it will attempt to set hundreds of cookies.

The video appears to be about online trolls harassing someone. So, Internet drama. Closed that.

Then, I find that there is no article that I'm that interested in. Scroll all the way down. Nope. Digging into the archives. Okay, one article potentially relevant.

Coverage of financial censorship seems poor, including the meeting with the regulator to express concerns about that.

I don't have much of an opinion on Niche Gamer (the site appears to have improved lately). They write stories I find relevant and I cover them here.

If you have other potential sites I could check, I don't mind checking them though.

For a company which collects so much data, Facebook is not terribly transparent.

The bigger issue is that Facebook runs obscure "data sharing" programs and no one really understands what they're doing. Then, they come out with language that is about as clear as mud.

So, when I see Facebook using weird suspicious language, I tend to get suspicious of that.

There was a lengthy tortured term which made me just think "wtf".

"realism" (quotes) came to mind because Facebook used the term in a suspicious manner a month ago, although it was just an example off the top of my head. I've said it before though, "realism" is a distraction which leads to musing over arbitrary distinctions (degrees? elements?) of "realism", rather than whether it is actually consensual / a fictional character.

In the case of NCII, I noted earlier this year that tech firms seemed to want to pretend that any false positive is "not actually a false positive", because it "looked close enough" by changing the definition of NCII to include the false positives. It's an absurd attempt to evade scrutiny of their moderative practices.

It looks like Bluesky hired a bunch of contractors lately, so if the moderation shifted for the worse (more censorious), that might explain it.

Instance is bugging out again.

I see a policy guy moved from the U.K. to Brazil.

Artificial "Intelligence".