“Parody, satire, or fan accounts are allowed on Bluesky, but they must clearly label themselves in both the display name and bio to help others know the account isn’t official.”
Seems ok to me?
And the enshittification begins…
So basically Bluesky is going to have to speedrun the first 5 years of Twitter.
End users really need to just be more skeptical. Big names need to register their own domain and point people to those places.
End users really need to just be more skeptical.
That’s… The opposite of a solution.
This is how you make systemic problems worse, not better.
Humans are largely morons, you can’t fix this. But you can fix the systems they interact with to avoid their vulnerabilities from being taken advantage of.
But how much do I trust the central authority that would be in charge of implementing that?
Personally, we, individual people, should just be calling out others spreading BS. There’s been more then a few times someone has brought me something fishy sounding, I’ve responded with “and did you hear about that on facebook?”
It takes too much time and resources. A lie runs halfway around the world before the truth laces up it’s shoes.
Manipulators and liars need to be stopped by a higher authority. I’m fine with that authority being civil liability, the criminal justice system obviously sucks at it. Let’s get serious and stop letting this stochastic terrorism go unpunished.
Lose your dad to Fox News conspiracies? Should be able to sue Fox News for child support. Lose your husband to a mass shooting caused by some deranged Trumper that thinks Paul Pelosi is coming to take our guns? Should be able to sue trump personally for wrongful death. It’s not like Fox and Trump don’t know what the consequences are.
Let juries be the arbiters.
This problem isn’t going to be solved without financial liability or violence.
“Mr Cook, why isn’t your company’s bluesky account just Apple?”
“Apple was taken. We respect the guff of the individual that currently holds that account. And will be using our current account going forward.”
“Do you feel that people may not associate Crabapple@bluesky.social easily with the company?”
“Look… we respect the individual, but we’re clearly not happy with the situation.”
Apple would just register Apple@Apple.com. We already know Apple computers owns apple.com. Tim Cook would own Cook@Apple.com for official CEO press releases.
