“On Wednesday, users reported an account that had a slur as its handle. This handle was in violation of our community guidelines, and it was our mistake that allowed it to be created,” the company said. “40 minutes after it was reported, the account was taken down, and the code that allowed this to occur was patched.”
Hey Jay Graber, Paul Frazee, Emily Liu, Rose Wang you have an incredibly bad anti-blackness problem on your platform. It says you are hiring. Where is the posting for your head of Trust and Safety? Why is this such a big problem every week or two it seems? If you don't want to run a social media platform, split the company in twain and go focus on the protocol and fund the platform with another team that cares. Or do you not care about marginalized groups?
How have they STILL not said a word? Take accountability, apologize for how bad this was, and advise the specific roadmap plan and options of how they’re fixing it, request feedback from the Black users, and then make adjustments based on there. Having one space for my Black friends to be able to enjoy as much as I have been is worth everything to me and most of my friends.
I am shocked, shocked that the man who made Twitter a safe haven for Nazis and other white supremacist terrorists for years is back to his plausible deniability games.
Also, if these folks weren't able to figure out to block creation of account names featuring the #1 most toxic slur in the English language used against Black people? I think we need to understand that they didn't want to do it.
has some coverage but hard to find because it bans mention of Bluesky The users are tired. Apparently it's not just about nigger but also about sex workers and Nazis https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1680334434283974656
Orange site
Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706856
Fun comment from that thread
There's an MLB player named Kiké Hernandez and there's been some fretting over his name, including calls for him to change it. Which is... something.
// Needs additional work to add more words that should be cought and regex added to catch common variations
const slurs = [
"chinaman",
"chinamen",
"chink",
"coolie",
"coon",
"eskimo",
"golliwog",
"gook",
"gyp",
"gypsy",
"half-breed",
"halfbreed",
"heeb",
"jap",
"kaffer",
"kaffir",
"kaffir",
"kaffre",
"kafir",
"kike",
"kraut",
"negress",
"negro",
"nig",
"nig-nog",
"nigga",
"nigger",
"nigguh",
"pajeet",
"paki",
"pickaninnie",
"pickaninny",
"raghead",
"retard",
"sambo",
"shemale",
"soyboy",
"spade",
"sperg",
"spic",
"squaw",
"tard",
"wetback",
"wigger",
"wop",
"yid",
]
I don't have a Bluesky account. Is apparently invite only, mainly through reddit and Linkedin. I don't have a reddit account.
If someone wants to check in try to get account from /r/BlueskyInvites
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I'm sure this outrage is genuine and proportional and totally not a powergrab![:marseyclueless: :marseyclueless:](/e/marseyclueless.webp)
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There's no power to grab. The site barely has any users. It's a preview twitter clone. This is just an r-slured tantrum.
Maybe there's a bunch of VC money that DEI grifters are trying to hoover up but I bet they already have DEI office and the most of the users whining certainly aren't going to get anything except the site they're on dying
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I guess it's like mod/student council drama, where the "power" is irrelevant but still leads to r-slurred scheming and infighting.
Maybe some people have an instinctive reflex to worm their way into institutions?
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Yeah, humans are adaptation executors, not utility maximizers. Now this is pointless, in the ancestral environment this tantrum would have allowed those people to kill and eat some fellow tribesmen probably.
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The less actual power there is, the more vicious infighting for it will be.
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I got thoroughly downmarseyd and fact-checked for suggested VC money will be involved on HN.
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