> I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code.

That tends to happen when there's an exclusive club, people want to peak in. It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform.

> the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features.

That tends to happen when there's hardly any users at all. The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off.

> the utter lack of ads is delightful.

That tends to happen in all pre-revenue startups. Twitter was ads-free for years.

Thanks for the cynicism but the quality of the platform is that I can currently, today, communicate with strangers and friends in good faith without being pelted by noxious crap or adtech gone asymptotic.

Maybe it'll all be the usual grim broken carnival barking shit when you have an account too, but for right now we're all twirling in a teacup here.

The noxious crap and adtech were all strapped on to Twitter by Jack, why would that not happen again?

They intend to not move to ads. This domain name feature was described specifically by bluesky as the first attempt at bringing in revenue from other means

So their business model is... exactly like twitter blue?

I mean, if by "exactly like twitter blue" you mean "charging people money for things" then sure. But you're generalizing beyond the point where the comparison is useful or a pejorative

> It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform.

No, but it is a reason why the quality of the current users has been allowed to be quite high so far.

> The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off.

They will try, but by then the moderation systems, feed/algo defaults, various content policies, etc. will have hopefully been ironed out, ideally negating many/most of the negatives of letting them all in without those things. This is being very heavily worked on right now, transparently and with input from the current users, and is a big reason to not yet open the floodgates.

Bsky has already had its first few Nazis get ahold of an invite code and show up and start doing their thing. The first time it happened, it took a while for everyone to figure out how to handle it and what the policies were and much of the community was irate. After that, they knew how to handle it and would do so before there was time for these users to wreak much havoc.

It's inevitable that eventually the floodgates will open and weirdos will show up. But that's not what really matters. What matters is whether or not they actually are successful at bothering everyone else. Launching with things in place to negate that is, for many people, the whole ballgame.

What is the thing that Nazis do?

Advocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.

Fair enough. The reason I asked is because it seems people throw that word around very loosely now

Well to be fair, nazism and nazi-adjacent ideas have had a renaissance as of late.

Nazi (n) - a label used for anyone you don't like and would like permission to punch because you disagree with them, and is used unironically as a synonym for fascism, even though the word's use is to promote the silencing of opposing views, even with violence, just like fascism does.

Historical definition: a German political party that led Germany to destruction and performed mass genocide

That's an illusion created by the self-selecting, invite-only nature of any product

Sounds like Clubhouse before it went mainstream and the quality plummeted.

> Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy.

Gotta have my filter bubble to protect me from 'misinformation.' At least this time it is crowdsourced so Jack doesn't even have to cooperate with any political campaigns.

What you want already exists. There's already tons of places online you can go to get a huge dose of conspiracy theories and racism. Your needs are met. Some of us would like to have places where that doesn't happen.

Right, the Hunter Biden laptop story censored by Twitter for the benefit of one political party during a presidential election was somehow misinformation and also a conspiracy theory and racism.

I find the complete unwillingness for everyone still moaning about misinformation to admit they were wrong about that laptop to be probably the most insane thing I've seen in my life. The laptop story wasn't even that important, but the incessant and belligerent lying or moving the goalposts about what happened is breathtaking.

If you ever want to admit you're wrong, I won't make fun of you.

Don't forget about the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy™ (which was anathema until ~6 months ago, but now it's the "leading theory").

Sometimes when you try a thing, you'll get it wrong, and that sucks. But that doesn't mean it's not worth trying. I'm not aware of any significant damage done by Twitter getting that one wrong, and the decision took place in an environment of increasing anti-Asian violence in the US[1]. I have a hard time blaming them for trying to do something within their power while there were real consequences for inaction and the jury was still out.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975722882/the-rise-of-anti-as...

No one reputable cares/cared about that story. The people pushing it are/were right wing conspiracy nutters, the kind of people who chug horse dewormer and refuse life saving vaccines. I'm pleased to see them booted out of the spaces I inhabit.

Lol, moron.

> had normals asking

What are "normals"?

I think he's referring to the mundanes.