Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter

The fact that Bluesky has some form of content moderation and has occasionally banned users for things like using racial slurs in their usernames.

Actually, Jack Dorsey may be the problem. Good to see him shift focus to that "free speech", pro-cryptocurrency platform Nostr. I see it like a containment zone for the worst people.

He looks like if Peter Dinklage had a baby with John Krasinski

Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”

This is the same problem that all these "free speech platforms" keep running into. Some people will abuse free speech - if nothing else, I think everyone can agree spam is a type of abusive speech. But the difference between abusive speech and ordinary speech isn't a sharp line, and the definitions of "abuse" will vary. So there needs to be some mechanism or rules for deciding what that line is. But all the people that create these platforms instead wanna pretend that line doesn't exist, so they don't create a means of determining it. So then "abuse" becomes whatever the users demand and/or the decisionmakers decide it is. Which is exactly the same as having no free speech to begin with.

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He looks like he's ready to start working on a manifesto, just gotta let the hair grow out more to match the beard

"I lit another fire and it also burned!" -Jack

Not coincidentally, Dorsey still has about $1 billion of his personal wealth invested in the company now known as X

HAD. Had a billion dollars...

Honestly the short form content incentivizing formats should be dropped altogether. Short form content has pretty clearly fried people's attention spans and burnt a lot of their fuse to boot.

The incentive to be smug snappy and smarmy to own people for internet points is too much, nevermind the algorithms that more or less act as a match finder for mass shouting contests as opposed to organic socialization where people who aren't psychopaths tend to have the good sense to just ignore each other if they encounter irreconcilable differences of ethical and political values.

That's right, the echo chamber was invented by the social media companies to gaslight you for not being happy they basically play rage tinder with your feed.

Even if somebody wanted to make an unmoderated ATProto app, I guess they could? Good luck with the app stores and regulators and users

ActivityPub provides the option to do just that. Anybody can spin up a server running Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, etc... and moderate it however they like. There are a multitude of clients in app stores and an unmoderated server won't affect that because they're generic clients like web browsers. There are countries such a server could be hosted in with minimal regulations.

As for users... you'll probably get some and they'll probably be horrible. Most people will probably block your server.

Wait, did they sell Bluesky to Musk?

Wasn’t this guy hired to be some kind of poster-boy CEO because he has a highschool masturbation related injury that causes one of his arms to constantly ache? Why is he giving everyone business advice now?

I don't understand how any of these visions fundamentally differ from Mastodon.

Decentralized? Yep. It's got no center. Open source? Yep, you can fork it and make your own if you want. Unmoderated? Sure, if you want that, you can set up an instance and host whatever illegal content you want. You'll have a lot of legal problems and most people don't want it, but the option exists.

Is there any point besides money and crypto bullshit? If you want to post short comments that your friends can subscribe to that isn't controlled by a big corporation that gives your data to the government... well we have that. It exists. It's pretty okay. Go use it.

He went from looking like The Mandarin from Iron Man to wish.com late stage Tyrion.

What a clown.

Jack Dorsey is clinically insane. Stop listening to things he has to say.

Biggest mistake he made was allow Twitter to be sold to an idiot

Wait, people hate him now. I remember people loving him in the Twitter years. What happened?

Bluesky is pretty fun and I'm glad he's not there shitting it up anymore. I've only seen one nutsack on there so far.

Jack Dorsey looks like Rasputin

Pretty much every failed social network out there failed because it had poor moderation tools, and this genius thinks the biggest mistake Bluesky has made is having any moderation tools at all.

Maybe space karen can by bluesky as well now. Let's start the bidding at $50 billion.

Bro looks sad