The thing that makes the Jesse Singal situation even more riveting is that the only aspect of Bluesky that isn't embarrassingly outdated compared to similar social media sites is the self-moderation tools. If you make a Bluesky account this very instant, you could theoretically block Jesse, anyone who has ever interacted positively with him, and any past or future mention of him in literal seconds. On Bluesky, you are, at any moment, three or four clicks away from a world where Jesse Singal never existed. Yet that, somehow, is not enough.
People aren't mad that they could be exposed to the cognito-hazard risks of reading dangerous wrong-think; they are mad about the fact that Jesse Singal has access to the same toys everyone else does, and that the moderation team isn't caving in to the latest tantrum of the site's Brahmin. Every second Jesse is still allowed on the platform is a testament that the inmates aren't fully running the asylum yet, and that drives them crazy. They never tried too hard to pretend that the rules were fair to begin with, but at the first signs that they could actually be used against them, the mask fell off, and Bluesky became the quiet-part-out-loud platform.
It's a very similar situation to the recent rape content controversy: the problem isn't (only) that the worst elements of the site need or even want to see the site full of rape; the problem is that the moderation team is daring to ask a protected class to behave for once, and are reminding them that they aren't above the rules just because they have weird pronoums or weird flags on their bio. It's all a cock-measuring contest. If BS banned Jesse Singal, they would find another target to banish to the phantom zone just to prove they are in charge.
Elliot doesn't like people policing BlueSky.
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You really have a class-A problem in your hands when Liz Fong-Jones is starting to sound like the voice of reason. Nevertheless, I'd be careful with my hot takes if I were LFJ in this situation, since this has become a "tech-bros vs. troons" battle behind the scenes, and I don't think Elliot has the backing of either side on Bluesky, as proven by his "End Targetted Harassment" fiasco. This could bite him in the ass eventually.