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Something I'm seeing a lot of is volunteer service operators moving those services to a different account. I wonder if making it easier to do that would be a good thing to lobby the devs for.

When you need a whale to support an argument: cetacean needed.

I was talking to some young friends and I mentioned Brendan Eich. They asked "that's the homophobic guy who made that crypto browser right?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sooo I've been off my meds and didn't realize how much time had passed. About to catch up.

Also do not follow those aggregator accounts that post a bunch of stolen pictures of foxes or whatever without any attribution. I've seen a number of those cycle through various identities - they may be just trying to accumulate a lot of followers so they can sell the account to some bad actor.

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Updating Plato's Cave to a version more like an airline where everyone is tuned to a separate movie or TV show or web cam

the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult

FYI There actually is an appeal process for folks I've blocked. You have to delete your account and make a new one.

never forget what a massive drain means testing is on resources. It's literally cheaper for schools to give everyone free lunch than to figure out who really "needs" it The first thing y'all need to let go of if you're serious about building community is the hangups about "deserving" and "earning"

I'm still trying to get a few more of the US feeds working, just as an update.

ok im having a really bad day (completely unrelated to anything online) and skyfeed is barely working anyway so im going to leave all those notifications unread and bury my head in the sand for like 24 hours

Oh good... an easy list to block these jabronis bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm going to become a NIMBS (Not In My Blue Sky)

And here's the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I do also have a feed for US Lawmakers. It happens to be powered by a moderation list so technically you could block or mute all of them at once. Here you go: bsky.app/profile/did:...

To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day. The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.

🪶🐍🦊🦑 Feeds! I’m aware that contributors’ tagged posts are occasionally not being included in the feeds. Many other feeds seem to be having this issue. Skyfeed/Bluesky weren’t ready for this user influx & I imagine things will be buggy while both continue to adjust. Thanks for your patience!

TIL I wasn't already following @daryllmarie.bsky.social

performance reducing drugs (alcohol)

I would like to award you with the highest honor I can bestow

everyone needs to give the servers some headpats. they pulled through today even while being real sad. can you drop a *headpats* in the replies so the servers know you love them?

lots of transphobia and misogyny in this thread that needs to be reported. Holy shit you never used to see shit like this on bsky.

@noideanemore.bsky.social follow me back or change your settings so I can DM you!

This is taking a lot longer than I expected!

Haven't seen anyone share this, but this feed will show only posts of accounts you follow, no replies, no retweets. With starter packs going like crazy I find it's reasonably easy to follow compared to the raw feed where it can get overwhelming. bsky.app/profile/did:...