Yo! Nice to see you! I'm glad to see ya but what happened with bluesky? I did a shower search...Is the exodus due to that one ahole? I'm not up on my soc media news. What gives?
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Bluesky moderation is allowing blatant transphobes to take residence on their platform now and banning trans people for retaliating against transphobia. Basically going the same direction as Twitter and Tumblr. I don't see any way this can go but badly unless moderation starts listening to us. You know the old adage, "once you start allowing Nazis in your bar it becomes a Nazi bar," if you get what I mean. It's a shame because Bluesky had so much potential, but of course, trans folx can't have anything nice.
well we are about 60 percent of the site and the entire admin team so i think we have this one for ourselves, no nazis would dare
Not exactly familiar either but it seems mostly due to the admins showing their entire ass because of him, not necessarily the guy himself
It started with the guy, yeah. They're allowing him on the platform and people are rightfully angry about it, but moderation isn't listening to any of us and is showing their ass like you said. I'm not 100% briefed on the situation either because I don't use Bluesky as much anymore, but that's the gist of it.
Welcome Zombie!!!!!
I think you're the first zombie we've had here. Do you really eat human brains? Totally cool if you do btw.
Anyways, great to have you here and feel free to ask any questions.
Hello!
And nah, I prefer fattier parts of the body. More flavor.
Thank you! ^^
Welcome Zombie!
Thank you!!
Hi, Buck!
Heya!! ^^
Dammit now I need to listen to The Cranberries. Thanks!
Based. The Cranberries are peak!
Howdy there bogbodzom, I hope you have fun posting here!
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Hiii Buck!!!
Hello!! :3
Hi! I'm new here as well. Definitely a different interface than I'm used to, gonna have to see how steep the learning curve is
Oh yeah definitely going to take some getting used to on my end as well. I'm just glad to finally have somewhere to talk that isn't infested with fash, though, so I'll make sure to learn the interface as quick as possible lol.
Nice to meet you Zombie!
Nice to meet you too! ^^
waddap Buck!!!!
Hello hello!! :3