@cwebber For those that want to yap about this over on #bluesky without creating an account, follow @bsky.brid.gy here on Mastodon.

Once they follow you (as long as your account is 7+ days old), then anything you post here on the Fediverse will be bridged across the Bluesky without need for an account.

As an aside, I originally tried creating a #bluesky account and got suspended almost immediately because I used a @simplelogin.com domain, because I'm expected to just give out my email, my real email, to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that asks for it instead of practicing #compartmentalization apparently?

@cwebber Masto says winning 😁

The only valid complaints I've ever really heard are "instances confusing" (true, but tbh, you almost certainly do not actually need to care)

and

"weird reply guys" (I have never found a site with less of these, fwiw. They're still here, but I can't call it unique here)

Some instance mods suck but like, just block the instance. By "some instance mods" I mean "nazis that are already defederated, and the performatively annoying mastodon.art team"

@cwebber There is not a human alive -- or dead, for that matter, or even yet to be born -- who has never wished harm upon someone else. It is, as Clarence Darrow argued, human instinct, part of our primitive neurology which we cannot escape, only discipline ourselves not to ACT on. If you kick everyone off who has this instinct, then you must obviously kick off EVERYONE, and then what are you left with?

People of the future will laugh heartily at our ham-handed attempts to manage all this.

So, @cwebber, if one quotes Melville on Bluesky to say: “from hell's heart I stab at thee”, JK Rowling, that gets account suspension? 🤦

This seems classic selective enforcement prioritizing complaints of the wealthy…

Speaking of which, while JK Rowling is nothing but vitriol, the psychology of such behavior is morbidly fascinating: it's as if JK couldn't stand being liked and insisted on finding a way to be widely hated.

So strange, disturbing, sad…& directly harmful to the trans community.

@cwebber That’s the #authoritarian #conservative playbook: They break all the rules, but demand you still play by them.

Just another prime example of #wilhoitslaw: The core value of conservatism is that there is an in-group of people who are protected by the rules, and another one who are bound by them but not protected.

Instead of having rule of law, you have rule by law and immunity from persecution. Instead of starting from what, they begin from who and make up the rest.

@cwebber i have a friend that didn’t know about Rowling’s mask dropping and they were pissed. they’re not on social media and oligarchic media protects her. after all, USA’s biggest media company is Disney; and they control a big chunk of entertainment, sports and news.

there’s a need for an organized info insurgency against her.

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