Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

Re:Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Ha... by Arubis on Friday August 22, 2025 @10:01AM (#44984807)

Agreed that better filtering would help greatly in making Bluesky more work-safe. (By contrast, ActivityPub’s communities do a decent job self-filtering, but that community is also more self-selecting at present.)

That said: furries are the internet’s coal mine canary. They’re one of the more visually prominent marginalized internet communities, and one of the first to get deplatformed when capital steps in. If you’re on a platform where furries are thriving, you’re probably in a safe space. Cf. the history of Tumblr, Twitter, Blogger, etc.

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Re:Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Ha... by barbazoo on Friday August 22, 2025 @10:11AM (#44984921)

How does that work? Would they lose access to the platform? Has that happened actually?

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Re:Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Ha... by DoctorOW on Friday August 22, 2025 @10:45AM (#44985300)

Generally, yes. If NSFW content is removed, it's incredibly common to see furry and LGBTQ content rolled into that. Furry themed account will be treated as a "repeat offender" even though they weren't really offenders to begin with.

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