My good friend Robert Stacy McCain has frequently written, “I watch CNN” or sometimes MSNBC, “so you don’t have to. Well, I went ahead and checked out Bluesky, the liberal version of Twitter, so that you don’t have to.
As we reported on December 3rd, Bluesky suspended the account of Libs of TikTok. Given that Chaya Raichik’s modus vivendi is to search out idiocy from leftists on social media and then publish it more widely, to mock the left, it seems that Bluesky just can’t handle the truth. No one, after all, accuses Miss Raichik of falsifying what she posts.
And now she’s tweeted out this one:
BlueSky Sees Surge in New Users and Child Sexual Abuse Material
Swelling numbers for the decentralized social platform BlueSky have brought a wave of harmful content, leading to attempts to moderate it.
by Jason Nelson |
Tuesday, November 26, 2024A surge in new users to social media platform BlueSky has also brought a rise in “harmful content,” leading to a mass moderation campaign to purge images from the network, the platform said on Monday.
“We’re experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network,” BlueSky’s Safety account said. “As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.”
After President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month, millions of users abandoned X, the platform formerly known as Twitter in search of alternatives.
Given that Bluesky admitted it, that’s all the proof that’s required. I haven’t seen any child porn on Bluesky, but I did see a surge in followers, most of which seemed not to be people agreeing with me politically, but pretty women, most with nothing in their bios, which seemed to be nothing but trolling for followers to promote Only Fans paid porn accounts. Nope, not interested.
Then there is this:
Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem
It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case.
by Jesse Singal | Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Recently, like a lot of journalists, I joined Bluesky, a social media platform that is enjoying a burst of postelection growth and positive press attention. It’s been lauded as a “kinder, gentler”—and, perhaps most importantly, more left-wing—alternative to X, which is increasingly seen as infested with what a Bluesky user might call “MAGA chuds.”
While I thought some of the critiques of X were overstated, over the last six months or so I’ve increasingly soured on it. It felt like an ever more hostile, hateful place, the technology seemed more broken every day, and I am not a fan of owner Elon Musk’s recent conspiracy theorizing and all-in support for Donald Trump. It seemed like time to scope out a potential alternative.
This was a mistake.
On December 6, I made my first post on Bluesky—which was actually launched by Twitter in 2019, before becoming an independent company two years later. As I soon found out, it is an exceptionally angry place. And in part because of a widespread culture of impunity when it comes to violent threats among some of its users, it comes across as a potentially dangerous one—in a way X, or Twitter, never did for me in my decade-plus of actively using that platform. Bluesky has either made a conscious decision to take a laissez-faire attitude toward serious threats of violence, or its moderators are incapable of guarding against them, or both.
There’s more at the original.
The very lovely and immunocompromised Taylor Lorenz, who trashed her career with both The New York Times and The Washington Post, has been desperately seeking relevance again, and as we have previously reported, has been celebrating the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and trying, in her own way, to create what, some sort of revolution or wave of killings of health insurance executives. Now she’s telling us of her problems with CVS Caremark.
That skeet was yesterday; today she told us that it was “Another day of going to war with CVS Caremark!!!!!!!!!!!” I’m just waiting for her to dox the CEO of CVS.
Her fans? In that threat, there were two skeets with pictures of the far left’s newest hero, the (alleged) murderer St Luigi Mangione.
Bluesky is exactly what the left accuse Twitter of being, just from the left. Actually, in my limited viewing of it, the far left; I don’t see many moderates over there.