![]() Like Mastodon, Bluesky aims to be a decentralized, federated social network. Repeat offenders will be banned from Bluesky’s server, but once Bluesky finishes the “work required for federation,” Graber said, users will be able to move to a new server with their mutuals and other data intact. Under Bluesky’s new policy, any post that threatens violence or physical harm - whether literal or metaphorical - will result in a temporary account suspension. We debated whether a “death threat” needs to be specific and direct in order to cause harm, and what it would mean for people’s ability to engage in heated discussions on Bluesky if we prohibited this kind of speech.” “Wisely or not, many people use violent imagery when they’re arguing or venting. But not all heated language crosses the line into a death threat,” Graber said in a weekend thread. “We do not condone death threats and will continue to remove accounts when we believe their posts represent targeted harassment or a credible threat of violence. Bluesky’s moderation team did not initially ban Alice, and invoked further outrage among users when Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announced a change in the platform’s policies that appeared to excuse comments like Alice’s. ![]() Other users reported Alice’s comment as a violation of Bluesky’s policy prohibiting extreme violence. In response to another comment about Aveta’s hellthread interactions, Alice suggested that Aveta get shoved off “somewhere real high.” Aveta, who declined to comment out of fear of harassment, described Alice’s comment as a death threat in posts on Bluesky. Alice made multiple racist posts in the past month, including one that said that Black users are welcome to create their own spaces if they don’t want to be somewhere that “reflects the demographics of the Anglosphere.” Last month, she had a dispute with Alice, a Bluesky user who went by cererean, over comments that Alice made about the growing Black community. Aveta is well known on Bluesky for expanding the Black community on the platform, and is an outspoken advocate for acknowledging Black influence on internet culture. Initially a shitposting outlet, the thread has devolved into a hotbed of discourse - opening the door for rampant racism.Īveta, a software engineer who has invited hundreds of Black users to Bluesky in hopes of recreating Black Twitter, replied in the thread asking people to stop posting R. The thread, which initially formed when a coding bug notified every single user in the thread every time another user responded to it, grew into a chaotic, seemingly infinite discussion board with countless subthreads. In a May 5 blog post, the Bluesky team said it plans to launch a “sandbox environment” to begin the testing phase of federation “soon.” ![]() ![]() Though robust moderation wasn’t one of Bluesky’s founding principles, many users expect the site to be more proactive in refusing platform bigotry - even if it conflicts with Bluesky’s decentralized goals.īluesky has not announced a specific timeline for federation. As a soon to be federated platform, Bluesky is at a turning point that could set the precedent for moderating decentralized social networks. Its users have doubled since then, and as it gains more, it also faces increased pressure to crack down on hate speech and other violent comments. But a moderation policy change that followed a death threat against a Black user has many on Bluesky questioning if the platform is safe for marginalized communities after all.īluesky had around 50,000 users by the end of April. Bluesky, the decentralized social network and frontrunner alternative to Twitter, has been hailed as a wonderland of funny posts and good vibes. ![]()
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