lol, Bluesky is now getting it on LinkedIn

"When your racism is so bad old white guys on LinkedIn think it's bad"

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scotthirleman_hey-jay-graber-paul-frazee-emily-liu-rose-activity-7085538196427546624-eiCk/

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Scott Hirleman
Data Mesh Radio Host - Helping People Understand and Implement Data Mesh Since 2020

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?

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Hey Neo, are you aware that your most recent investment Bluesky PBLLC has a pretty big anti-blackness problem? They didn't even think to block the N word from being in usernames... that's just 101 level. They did block someone from taking the username 'danieltosh' at least... yeah... It's a VERY recurring problem of anti-blackness and the entire userbase is not happy. The company has refused to make an apology or statement, barely doing an update to the codebase.

If you took a board seat in your seed investment, can you be reached for comment regarding not hiring a Trust & Safety Lead? Is this what you want to be associated with? I can mention some reporters in the comments that might like to write a story on it.

Ali Partovi, Suzanne Xie, Jan C., Emily Cohen, Stephen Cornwell please address immediately with your investment.

Are you okay with this type of lax attitude regarding Trust and Safety towards underrepresented groups being associated with your brands Neo mentors? Aduke Thelwell, Amir Kantor, Anand Subramani, Aston Motes, Ben Newhouse, Camille Ricketts, Carol Reiley, Claire Shorall, David Mace, Fuzzy K., Jason Dorfman, Jehron W. Petty, Jesse Zhang, Kyle Parrish, Lin-Hua Wu, Maria Zhang, Melissa Tan, Neha G., Omoju Miller, Pavla Bobosikova, Pierre Martin, Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat, Sima Gandhi, Rainer Sainvil, Alan Flores-López, Anne Solmssen, Ansh Nanda, Ari Steinberg, Asta L., Dhruvik P., Mihir Garimella, Neil Patil, Nidhi J.

It's simple to say we're sorry and will do better. Why is the company refusing to do this. T&S is an urgent need if Bluesky is going to actually be a social platform and not only develop the protocol. Please spur them to do the right thing.

FACTS ABOUT MASTODON

If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:

1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.

2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.

3. Picking your server instance is super important.

Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY reactionaries who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out whenever this turns out not to be the case.

Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because the admin of your instance is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.

In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.

4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.

You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis by unfortunate historical accident. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.

There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and started his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.

The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.

There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.

5. Any bozo who complains about your posts with assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.

6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.

7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets so they can wreak EVIL.

So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and Misskey (and forks thereof), is in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.

8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.

9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.

10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
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EDIT: this post is attracting some very dumb reply guys. Consider *not* posting debate club fatuity.

You may have heard that the principals of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange were into Effective Altruism.

Let me explain what Effective Altruism is:

* Some charities are more effective than others, and you should donate to the more effective ones.

yeah, sounds obvious and sensible

* As a first-worlder, you are basically rich, even if you don’t feel like it, and you therefore have an ethical obligation to contribute to those who aren’t - almost certainly more than you do now.

this is pretty sound reasoning actually, I can get behind this

* Therefore, we can and should stack-rank every charitable initiative in the world according to an objective numerical scoring system,

wait what

* and clearly the most cost-effective initiative possible for all of humanity is donating to fight the prospect of unfriendly artificial intelligence,,

what the

* and oh look, we just happen to have a charity for that precise purpose right here! WHAT ARE THE ODDS,,,,

fuckin