Ooh “under fire” what’s next, they’re going to get “slammed”? That’ll show em.
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?
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.
