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I'm not very active on Mastodon, but saw this post - browsing the bluesky hashtag for a bit afterwards did not really give me much info. I can definitely imagine enshittification happening there, but what is causing the current drama in particular?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only thing I've personally noticed is we seem to have received another burp of magas recently.

It takes very little effort to keep that shit out of your feed on Bluesky if you don't want to see it, so I usually only see the magas when they crop up in comments on George Takei posts and similar.

I'm a big proponent of the "block early and block often" mindset in the fediverse and bluesky, so I do tend to notice how much time I spend blocking magas, and I hadn't needed to do so for weeks until recently. I figured it was from 4chan imploding.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you can subscribe to block lists. heres an example of one that looks for MAGA stuff https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Careful with those lists though, it's not unknown for bad actors to add innocent accounts to them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm on several MAGA lists because the dumber sect of Democrats can't understand that people exist to the left of them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Dare not criticize the liberal lest ye be called a conservative.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, why does George takei attract magas?
Or is he just a well known & largely followed person on bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, why does George takei attract magas?

Its because he's their most prominent gay, non-white opponent. They don't like it when he reminds them he actually experienced American concentration camps before they were moved to El Salvador.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Oh, you mean a decent real human? Yeh, that makes sense they would target him

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well known, largely followed, and often roasts the Trump admin. Same with Mark Hamill. (and yes, GT being gay and open about it does not help!)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

4chan imploding

What happened @ 4chan?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They got badly hacked a while ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The hackers were alt right loons who were pissed that /qa/ (a “sfw” /b/ that was basically just a Nazi propaganda board) was taken down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was 4Chan ever good? I remember not being too bothered by it way back, but I was probably just immersed in the Xbox lobby culture of 00s internet and didn't notice how toxic it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

it had good bits among the bad, but it was lots of bad and the bad was REAL bad