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If you are cis ("not transgender") I need to explain this to you. Bluesky today posted this vague thread, announcing-without-spelling-out that they're allowing a writer, net troll and anti-trans activist named Jesse Singal to stay on the platform, despite every trans user saying it makes us unsafe.

This is the heart of the thread: They're looking at the one specific rules violation Singal is being reported for *currently*. And they're saying, this doesn't count as a rules violation, because he was careful enough to stay within the strict lines of the rule as written.

But you can have private profiles, or public ones blocking non logged user visualization (enforcement of blocking rules), moderation lists, simple mutes, and simple blocks. Isn't it enough? (Don't even know who the cited person in question is, this is a genuine curiosity)

So it's true that Bluesky has better personal safety tools than Twitter (although you *can't* actually have private profiles on bluesky… if I'm not mistaken you have a private profile so just to warn you, it is not doing quite what you probably think it is)

If it helps, here's a thread describing the experiences I've had that guide my thinking here: bsky.app/profile/drya...

Oh, one other thing. You mention moderation lists. But if you look closely at bluesky's moderation lists, you'll find there are LOTS of "troll" lists made up to look like something desirable but actually doing something else…there's one guy who adds everyone who blocks him to a "Russian plants" list

In particular, there's a tendency for people to make copies of "anti-trans trolls" lists, and add a bunch of trans people near the bottom! I don't know what their proof is, but I've seen Kiwifarms specifically blamed for this (because KF is definitely on the site… I didn't mention them arbitrarily).