Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 October 2024

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

These are very good questions. What would designing a social media platform to minimize its utility for the promoters of genocidal hate speech look like?

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

You might not appreciate it, but fundamentally, opaque / nuclear interpersonal blocks are a foundation of how to counter & prevent the promotion of genocidal hate speech.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When Reddit changed their block function from a one-way mirror to an opaque block, I watched the ringleader of A group that had run hoaxes, propaganda, & terrorist efforts — have a full-on meltdown in their private ("private") backroom channel

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And when someone circumvents a subreddit ban or a personal block, Reddit suspends all their accounts.

So there was a period right after they changed their block function & enforcement when people with several-years old accounts were getting suspended "for no reason"

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Fascists inherently disrespect boundaries. Allowing people to declare arbitrary interpersonal (and community, where available) boundaries & then enforcing violations of those — you never even have to stop to ask "who is the bad guy and what is their motive". You just action the violation.