Did they really allow it?
Someone made a username with a slur in it. Two hours later they were banned and the redundancy patched. A little after that an apology was announced.
Yeah, this reads like such a nothingburger I don’t see why it’s news. Yeah, they didn’t add enough filters, but fixed it as soon as it was pointed out. Why continue the outrage?
Ooh “under fire” what’s next, they’re going to get “slammed”? That’ll show em.
what is Bluesky and why should I care?
It’s another microblogging site backed by Jack Dorsey (former Twitter CEO) and other venture capital. They made a lot of claims and now they are failing to follow-up. I think they are still invite-only so even if you do care, you need someone who is in already to join.
Technically they also use a federated protocol called Authenticated Transfer (AT). Though overall from what I can tell they’re not doing well, Threads has over 100 million users and Mastadon has over 10 million, while Bluesky only has a bit over 300,000.
While it’s true Bluesky has only a small number of sign-ups, it’s still invite-only, which limits how many people can sign up. There has been lots of interest in Bluesky, and many people simply haven’t been able to get an invite.
I however, don’t disagree otherwise. I think their choice to be invite only is going to put them in a harder position long-term, especially with ActivityPub taking off and being a lot more open.
Also Jack Dorsey is a fucking asshat and I don’t trust him being the controlling factor for a fucking internet protocol, but that’s just, like, my opinion man.
