Olives @olives@qoto.org

If you are confused as to why there are a few posts prior to it, I changed the wording a bit and reposted it.

"planned monetization features for creators"
Speaking as a commentator on financial censorship issues, it'd be absolutely insane to use Bluesky as a creator platform, especially with the extreme puritanical censorship we have heard about. Strong recommendation against. #FreeSpeech

I'm taking the time to warn people now about Bluesky because I don't want anyone to sign up for it and to encounter a nasty surprise later on. It's a company which doesn't seem to respect the work that creators do.

With a few of these companies, they weren't always so bad, they got worse later. In this case, it's far clearer where it seems to be going, and it's not a place you'd want to go.

While I think other companies should improve, and better protect the freedom of expression of their users, I have no confidence this company won't do something bizarre and incoherent for some strange reason.

Even though there are other companies which are weird and censorious, I haven't heard about as much wacky nonsense with them as I have heard of over the past week about Bluesky's moderation team.

Apparently, there are even inexplicable anti-furry posts.

I encountered a weird bug so I posted this again instead of boosting it.

https://protectthestack.org Protect The Stack is important reading for infrastructure issues.

I'll keep my other thread in more general terms though, because I'd like to avoid making assumptions on specifics here.

The days when Q just meant a powerful alien from Star Trek.

Even innocuous language, that is written without regard for practical implementation could be over-read.

Not that long ago, we were being told that everything in Taiwan was going great. Meanwhile, the legislature is breaking out into a brawl over a few controversial bills.

https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202412200006 Meanwhile in Taiwan.

A mask ban is particularly silly in a subway. I could see diseases spreading there.

Apparently, the U.S. Congress was also concerned about Visa / MasterCard financial censorship around a month ago.

But, there is also a question of what someone actually wants them to do about it.

If you remember the case with Stripe from a decade ago though, a financial firm used some weird language, rather than just saying they meant real bestiality and stuff.

I think it's that sort of language which is confusing these firms.

There is another issue with MSC type marketing. It is likely to cause confusion and paranoia in a "pre-crime" type way. The science also isn't sufficient. I'd be similarly suspicious of Shore.