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One time I had a teenager moment and posted lyrics about govt violence from 20 years ago and you guys banned me Now I’m on my own PDS

I think if I was running a website where people come to post socially I might learn who my freaking user base is. But hey, I'm not in charge and clearly you're doing a great job based on this posts ratio

"So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave." That is a most peculiar thing to say. Did you have plans to lock us in?

"cant get everything right" and then its banning Journalists. you have a platform people rely on for information and you lied to our faces and said you took that seriously. "if you dont like it leave" is fine conduct for a playground not an information platform. the only person we dont need is you

Why are you monitoring non-threatening speech? You’re not my mom. I don’t need your approval of my thoughts or ethics.

Is this supposed to be cute?

no it isn’t a hard problem. You just don’t want to do anything to offend the feelings of worthless right wing bigots.

We knew you'd bend to fascists eventually we can see the platform is designed to cater to and shelter liberals from leftist thought Your job seems to be funnelling radicalised peasants back into the meat grinder

So you're going to ban this, right? bsky.app/profile/iwas...

from 2011 www.dashes.com/2011/07/20/i...

"the protocol allows that, do it yourself, losers" is the response. Blacksky is up, Northsky is coming soon, others probably exist.

fire Aaron

I recognize it's hard, no one said it was easy and if they did, they're wrong. but some very obvious choices have been made on who to suspend/ban, and it really really looks like this site is siding with the ones who are actually inciting violence. just another perspective here.

You have known issues (a transphobic moderator). It's not a matter of effort, but of intent. Famously misleading (and trending!) WSJ article is still up, but trans people get banned for mildly inappropriate jokes.

Congratulations on being a fascist.

This thread is nothing but Charlie Kirk quotes. I highly suggest you read it This is who you are defending. You are taking the side of people who agree with these things and supported the guy who said them Please reconsider your response and actions here.

Weakling pissbaby says what

“If you don’t like it we allow you to leave” is a super weird way to approach moderation.

Jeezus you're bad at your job. You should leave and let someone better at this take over.

"If you think we're doing a bad job, just leave" isn't the slam dunk you think it is.

...How hard *is* it to just not do what hateful shitbags who don't even use/care about this site want? I want to know in excruciating detail why they matter more than the communities that made this platform a success. Start explaining why we don't matter to you. Because we are not at fault.

“Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone.” You shouldn’t be trying to please Nazis and other bigots. Hope that helps!

Yeah it's hard but you do a bad job too

Oh, what a mature fucking response.

People leaving your business cause you don't offer a good product is not a featured option, it was always an option you don't have a choice in the matter outside of doing better.

You seem fine with transphobia and genocide though.

The same thing that happens to everyone with power and money They turn into shit

Money blunts all humanity.

And believe me, I'll be choosing an alternative to this site very soon if dangerous lies like this are allowed to be posted here without consequences.

I was unaware that we had the right to leave. I like it here. Let's please not let it become like Twitter. That's the whole appeal.

When we tolerate intolerance, the intolerant destroy the tolerant. We've passed fear and anger. We're seeing hate and suffering. Suggestions of a final solution (genocide) have been presented on the news. Now, neglected human rights can be solved by a needle. www.newsweek.com/fox-news-hos...

I'd love to know what the problem is here, but the original post has been deleted. I, for one, would say I'm quite happy here. Not sure what's caused this commotion.

That "billionaires delenda est" rings hollow when you sloppily copy their agenda

I am not being detained?

bsky.app/profile/bull...

Lol this is quite the cop out for failing to even do the most basic job of following your own terms of service when your feelings get hurt

Moderwaiting is so hard and I'm just a wiw guy 😭

Firing Aaron Rodericks would be a start, but you have no intention of getting *anything* right here.

Hey, uhh, what the fuck?

What if you had a moral principle worth standing on.

People came here because they DON'T want Twitter. Was that not evident? Refraining from unfairly targeting trans people, & uplifting white supremacists is not actually "hard" at all, & it's okay if you don't "please" the bigots, seditionists & fascists. How is this a complicated equation?

"If you don't like me shitting in our house, you can go buy a new one and live there." -Jay Groyper, 2025

Why should the responsibility fall on us? You can easily do something about the people spouting christofascist nonsense rather than punishing their victims. Do better.

at this point, why not just write, ”if you queers don’t like it, leave :)” your moral compass is broken

So where's the migration tools? You haven't built the infrastructure to support this claim. You prioritized banning journalists over it.

moderation is hard, yes. but this implies that the bluesky approach to hard problems is to shrug your shoulders and say "shucks, i guess we can't rise to the challenge" which, i'm going to take a wild fucking guess, is not the culture you claim to have in 99% of situations

also, telling people if they don't like it here they can build their own... hmm.

Many trans people have lost everything to be who they really are - family, friends, jobs, safety, housing. Don't think for a minute they wouldn't walk away from an abusive social media platform.

came here to say this. Everybody here has already proven they will up and leave a platform and start over to escape this kind of mismanagement. Daring this user base to walk is crazy. Especially when all we are asking is common sense moderation that treats minorities better than nazis

Get rid of the Nazis.

The fact that your actions over the last 3 days have you yourself discussing alternatives to your business should be a clarifying thing. You know deep down you’ve made some real mistakes here.

We can choose an alternative CEO of Bluesky? Class. Let's gooooooo

I really hate those other platforms where there is no right to leave! That's what really sets Bsky apart! Dang.

He also likes jorking it to young women and girls while on the clock, so...

Ma'am, with respect, this "I'm sorry if you're offended" style pseudo-apology is not the move.

Ohhhh...

amazingly useless response as expected. hey why don't you tag in Why so he can have another massive public meltdown about those 'small group of meanies' while you're at it

This fucking sucks, but it kind of seems like you already know that

Maybe don’t cave to fascists at every opportunity

well actually doesnt apply here. most users are on a bsky hosted PDS.

Hey could you give us a list of groups you'd like to leave your site

You are, at best, very bad at this

Have you considered simply not suspending people for not sufficiently eulogising a dead Nazi?

Shame on you for failing to protect your user base from horrible violent right wing bad actors.

This just sounds like a cop out to not do better

"We knew from the start we can't get everything right" You HAD it right at the start and then started glorifying trans/minority harassment and Nazis and silenced anyone who spoke out against it, YOU made the problem yourself, YOU'RE the one who needs to leave for it to get better. It's that simple.

I recommend you not ban people for posting the truth about what a dead fascist said in life.

So basically…

You were meant to be the alternative. Start banning bigots, immediately. End of discussion.

I've seen accounts openly celebrate a genocide go unpunished while people get suspended for being the victims of said genocide or because they are trans or because they feel nothing for a n*zi dying...and your response is, "If you don't like it, just leave."

you must think we're really stupid

"If you don't trust us, or don't like our decisions" That sounds so much like Elon and Mark E os direitos trans?

cool pfp lol

We can start with one thing: Fire Aaron. The knock-on effects of that would improve things a lot.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftxq...

But hey, feel free to ignore and alienate your userbase and buy the propaganda of the right wing pundits who want to see this place buried.

Queer people and furries are the whole reason your dumb website has any kind userbase at all. Kindly fuck off and learn some goddamn respect you nonce.

you are on the wrong side of history, and I will post all about it on a DIFFERENT PDS as SOON as I'm able to move. I will make sure you are not forgotten, and end up in history books as a cautionary tale.

chuffed.org/project/1153...

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Jay, are you going to do or say anything about the NY Post using Bluesky to spread blatant transphobia and lies about Charlie Kirk’s killer? No? Why the double standard?

Moderation is a hard problem cause your team doesn’t even follow bluesky’s own community guidelines to moderation your users.

But you're not even trying. The team puts in a lot of work, but when certain people point out certain issues you ignore 'em. A few days later: more platitudes! "If you don't like it, leave?" Hell of a thing to say to the people who built your website up from just another failed Twitter knockoff.

The primary reason folk use Bluesky is because it's a left-leaning, or at least not toxic right social media platform If you get moderation wrong, and your users don't feel safe, you have NOTHING You have NO unique selling point other than your users. It's just Twitter with half the functionality

Fuck off Jay. Your platform hinges on being better than twitter. You're basically the democratic candidate of social media platforms. At the end of the day you arent actually lookong out for your users and probably would fuck us all over if it came down to it.

oh that's sounds so tough for you, maybe you should go have a rest (in piss)

As opposed to to a protocol where we are all forced to stay? How benevolent

Maybe listen to people instead of being a total butthat going "Don't like it, then leave." Have some backbone and acknowledge you all need to listen and stop caving towards fascist. You don't do that, your platform will die faster than Twitter.

And this is how your platform dies. Any person who's a minority and big enough to get eyes on them is just open season to harass and your horrible moderation is too busy playing cya and going after those same people

Or you could just simply course correct from making a bad call, admit your mistake & work toward a better solution, instead of digging your heels in and plowing through or just throwing your hands up like there's absolutely nothing you can do to make the situation better. Wild food for thought.

no, it's not a "hard" problem, y'all a bunch of lazy asses when there are accounts threatening trans lives on here getting HUNDREDS of reports and you sleep on it, it's fucking LAZINESS and perhaps APATHY fuck off

Right now there's not a lot of trust, and "you deserve the right to choose an alternative" sounds an awful lot like "my way or the highway". We're not asking for perfect. We're asking for *better*. Current moderation is opaque and non-responsive. If you *want* to be another X, you're on that path.

moderation issues aside, the problem with that is there's no functional alternative right now

Respectfully, noone is asking you to please everyone! We're just asking for you to be fair and consistent, to not crack down on marginalized folks while letting known bigots get away with similar or worse behavior

I have a simple idea. You should focus on banning right wing voices. They have a whole other site to spew their bile. Two, actually!

Sure seems like you’re trying to get everything wrong. Actions>words.

What a cop out. The "protocol". You can "leave". Just like the capitalist simps who say "you can just get another job" or the racists who say, "you can just leave the country." That is some intensely ingrained bigotry right there.

Target didn’t understand their customers either.

Oh, trust - we Will leave, and the nazi audience you're trying to pander to Won't fill the void Have fun figuring that out, lmao!

😂😂😂

You could at least try to get SOME things right. Instead, you guys have taken aim at our most vulnerable people. The people, I might remind you, who made your site, THIS very site, viable. You bit the hands that fed you. Do not get all uppity now.

"It's impossible to please everyone, so we're gonna put our efforts into trying to please the bigots who will never be satisfied and will always do their thin-skin kayfabe to demand that things go more and more their way."