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What's with the surge of new users from Bluesky? Has that website already gone full reddit or something?
Their "Trust and Safety" guy is a "soft transphobia" shitass who is letting organized bigots stay on the site ~~because they are technically following the rules~~ because Bsky hates it's trans users. A lot of people are in the process of drilling some holes in the hull then abandoning ship because why put up with that?
Bsky has been doing other fuckery too. Banning Palestinians is the big one I'm aware of.
They let noted transphobe Jesse Singal on the platform, so a bunch of trans folks in particular are looking for alternatives
It’s just bizarre how much of a presence this guy has. I remember reading one his transphobic articles 6 years ago and thinking: "Oh well, this guy seems pretty unhinged and, even though the narrative is quite dangerous to trans children, this stuff is just too obscure to gain any traction." And yet here we are.
Imagine being a liberal and seeing a dangerous maniac like that join your site and then just throwing up your hands and saying "Welp. I consulted the rules and he hasn't technically broken any. Guess there's literally nothing I can do!"
If the rules allow transphobes then the rules are wrong
Right? My five year old nephew understands the difference between "following the rules" and "being good" (or, in adult terms, "legal" and "ethical"). Liberals really do have baby brains.
i posted a version of this on bluesky, let’s see how it does
Bluesky made a long PR-speak thread that basically said "Our rules don't allow transphobes, they just don't disallow transphobes."
I just looked it up and he DID break the rules. Indirectly calling for his sycophants to harass trans people over there. But of course shitlibs are claiming that, because he didn’t do it on bluesky but on xitter instead, it doesn’t count.