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I know this must have been as heart-wrenching for you as it was time-consuming. I appreciate you bringing attention to this issue. I know I personally wouldn't have known otherwise. Keep up the good work, my friend. Your efforts are not in vain.

Blocked and reported the account in question.

It's crazy how they just allow blatant hate

Thanks for elaborating. I saw some things passing by, but didn't have the context. This makes it clear.

u really think 24m care about this?

📌 Singal (summary for allies)

Thank you for the information. I never heard of the guy before: found him, noticed many blocked posts from content moderation I follow, and noticed a serious passive/aggressive vibe from him. I blocked the guy, recommend everyone to block, and I'll leave it at that.

That is totally fricked up.

He's literally got thousands of minions who'll gladly screenshot trans people's posts for him.

Not even surprised.

he evades blocks (an explicit tos violation) to direct thousands of trolls to doxx and harass whoever he points to. blocking him is essentially useless.

Thanks for making this post. Even as a trans person, I was not aware of this, so you're not just helping by explaining it to cis people.

I ultimately just don’t see in what way leaving this person on here is benefitting Bsky as a whole really.

Probably. It’s the only thing we can do

Not just that, but many bigots will defend their behavior under the guise of "just asking questions". Engaging with that tactic is rather destructive, so its best to ignore/block. Unfortunately, that means asking an honest question can get caught in the crossfire

*thing. I meant thing, not they. Fuck.

yeah, this is why the solution is to deny the thing oxygen, rather than to let the fire burn and pour one little cup of water on it at a time

Starve the beast for now until the staff grows a spine.

Seems like they just have no time to sleep, with all of these frivolous responsibilities! Poor mod team, they should set up a gofundme Singal is wealthy enough

*thinks* Well, I think part of what is going wrong with bluesky is a deep strain of philosophical anarcho-libertarianism, but… uh, ok wait, you might be right that syndicalism has a solution?? I don't know anything about it?? I guess i need to read more Theory??!

Blocked and reported him. Yuck. Let me call upon the greatness that is Acaster: youtu.be/adh0KGmgmQw?...

I hope that makes him desist and leave.

I am not really committed to this app. If this isn't fixed I'll delete. It is harmful. I won't stay on a platform that flops over for hate journalists.

Thank you so much for this.

Honestly still holding out that itll be fine later

Meh, just block and move on. This isnt Twitter drama

Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook are already bending the knee. I am willing to bet that Jesse Signal is expecting this site to bend the knee for an incoming administration as well.

I think it's because they're new to this game and are trying to take what they think is a reasonable and fair approach. This thread lays out well why that's not what they're accomplishing, but for the moment, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that they listen and make changes.

Thank you for writing this

Thank you. 📌

Signed the petition. I'm cis, but this is just awful... Way out of line. I hope this is fixed soon. I like it here. 😭

I wish that I had an answer to this. :( I link a petition at the end of the thread… but I'm not sure that adding numbers to the petition makes any more difference than just talking about it on Bluesky, which is to say, it only makes a difference if Bluesky Social (the company) wants it to.

(My phone's keyboard just started screwing things again, I'm sorry if there are misspellings)

*do better

I don't understand why they insist on dropping the ball like this when they planned on monetizing in some way soon. If they don't have it in them to care about the safety of trans people you'd think they would at least have financial sense.

Hate speech is not Free speech, it's speech that prevents other human beings from having the right to their own free speech through hate. Fuck Jesse

Thanks for putting this out there. Wouldn't know this was an issue.

I've never heard of this guy before but he sounds like an ass

Heard about him as soon as he joined. Blocked him before he posted anything.

Ah that kind of cunt? Yeah, boot him. Yday was late...

As a response, is it ok if I link this thread I wrote after? The short version is "he's actively recruiting new toxic people to the site, and I probably can't block all of them". bsky.app/profile/drya...

I haven't seen this regarding private profiles because here I've never needed it. But one thing you can always do is to block logged out visibility and always block profiles using moderation lists. It helps. In this case, private profiles are really missing...

Yeah, but to add to your point: the military dictatorship here in Brazil citizen to citizen violence was pretty low also. This had a cost. That is my point.

But in the end it just can't be enough to protect you if a harassment culture develops for the site at large. You can't solve a social/cultural problem with technical solutions. And if you have a determined adversary willing to do things like make dupe accounts, they can overcome your tools.

In a much smaller scale: We had to ban somebody once in a discord server. They didn't break any rules, But everybody was just avoiding open channels bc of them. Mods included. So we just sent them out. We made the rules to keep the server alive, we could change them to keep it alive.

This is, incidentally, why the first rule in my Discord server is "don't be a dick," and the second is, "mods reserve the right to determine whether or not you're being a dick." Gives us broad leeway to say, "yeah, you technically stayed within Rule 5, but your behavior was still wrong."

bsky.social/about/suppor... Blatant 1D breach "Do not support or normalize pedophilia or the sexual exploitation of minors."

On my way to report.

Yes. (PS, because Internet tone is confusing sometimes, I want to be *totally* clear— my post was saying *Bluesky's* stance misunderstands the issue, and cosigning your point.)

Sorry for the random reply, but I'm trying to remember: doesn't the protocol or at least Blue sky allow you to view posts through the filter of different moderation services? Which is why there are more reporting options than just the bsky safety team url.

Petition aight gonna do shit, we should take more direct action

I need a bit more explanation. I'm reading the screenshot and I cannot figure out how it applies to the situation. Like, Is it true that Singal post have had technical issues? The explanation doesn't make technical sense... Is that a lie to justify painting target on an innocent victim?

I was iffy on this -I think Signal is loathsome but at the same time I really hate "cancellation" and want people who I find loathsome here as long as they abide by the rules - until I found out kiwifarms are involved. Terrorist organization, they act in bad faith every time and only want to kill.

Ok, I hadn't got to this point yet. But is there any other concrete evidence to tie this person to this kind of group and actually ban them? (Never heard of this term regarding pro harm groups)

Singal himself, as a writer, has been waging an escalating war on trans existence, launching from a 2018 Atlantic cover story that outed and misgendered its cover subject. He specializes in swaying "liberals" and centrists, targeting them with the wedge strategy of "well I support trans people BUT—"