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I made this thread yesterday about Bluesky's decision that Jesse Singal shall stay on the platform. When I wrote it, I had like, a kind of six-post coda I decided not to include because it seemed ungainly, I wanted to make my thread succinct. But I wanna post this now. Continuing from this post:

In 2014 I was a Twitter user. There was a pretty healthy little trans community there, we kept to ourselves, no one bothered us. Then a group called "gamergate" started targeting "sjw"s on the site, starting with my friends in indie games. Suddenly my community was targeted by swarms of sockpuppets…

…and the community hollowed out, as people left facing harassment the site couldn't or wouldn't protect them from. Twitter decided not to moderate gamergate. And as a result, gamergate *became* Twitter's moderation team. Twitter gave them the power to decide who could/couldn't stay on the site.

Bluesky is looking down the same thing with Singal and Kiwifarms. By gifting Kiwifarms a respectable, centralized organization point that won't get banned as long as it follows easily gameable rules, Bluesky is making Kiwifarms its new effective moderation staff.

And the worst part for Bluesky is, this won't end when Singal is banned. (I don't think much of Singal's self control; I think he'll keep testing the envelope until he does something even Bluesky finds bannable.) The people he "colonized" this site with will stick around after he's gone.

You've made many valuable points MCC, but it is clear that those in charge will not listen unless they are forced too. Action must be taken to force Bluesky on this issue and make them understand things.

If they still refuse to see the truth, then we must take action ourselves to remove the KFs from Bluesky. As they have been going after the Trans Community, it’s time to start going after them. I have no skill in programming or hacking, but I’m hoping to reach out to some folks here who are.

Folks willing to fight for the innocent and go after the KFs where it will hurt them the most. If I or others can do that, maybe we can get them to be the ones afraid for once, make them the ones digging holes to run and hide in so we can make Bluesky safe for Trans and kind folks once again.

Untrue. #YourSlipIsShowing

I would consider "your slip is showing" as an operation organized off twitter and performed on twitter. (An operation involving fake-identity accounts would seem to need, by *nature*, to be organized elsewhere because the fake-identity accounts theoretically cannot talk about being fake?)

It *is* definitely the case that the people who comprised "gamergate" were performing operations against twitter before gamergate. But I do believe by the time gamergate was done they had refined and changed their methods significantly in a way that permanently changed Twitter itself for the worse.