Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
by gspr on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:00AM
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Would you call it the same when a bunch of your friends recommend you stay away from someone? Or the opposite, introduce you to someone they like?
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Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
by themaninthedark on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:25AM
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Only for the most part; people online aren't my friends, there is not enough interaction/depth of interaction to get to really know them and being online tends to turn people into fuckwads(1). They just happen to be you're kind of fuckwads.
(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
by SanjayMehta on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:58AM
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That’s a stretch.
It’s well accepted that people tend to be more unpleasant online, and text doesn’t translate nuance well enough to avoid misunderstandings, no matter how many emojis are assigned to the task.
Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
by intended on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:44AM
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Blocklists are used by women quite extensively, to block everything from specific terms to specific harassers and specific communities and topics.
Re:Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
by pmarreck on Monday April 07, 2025 @04:58PM
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Being put on a shared blocklist isn't a "stay away from this person"; it's a "tell these thousand people to stay away from these other thousand people regardless of actual basis, because 1 person got offended"