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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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190 points amichail | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hntempacct99 ◴[20 Nov 24 15:16 UTC] No.42194606[source]▶
From what I have seen using Bluesky this isn't true at all. It's brutally censored, even more than Twitter was in 2021. Or are there other relays and appviews I can use that aren't? Is there a comprehensive list of Bluesky infrastructure that isn't run by Bluesky themselves (excluding a PDS)? Or is it totally centralized for now?
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nick_ ◴[20 Nov 24 15:19 UTC] No.42194628[source]▶
What brutal censorship have you observed?
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okeuro49 ◴[20 Nov 24 15:23 UTC] No.42194662[source]▶
https://bsky.app/profile/realbabylonbee.bsky.social
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gr__or ◴[20 Nov 24 15:27 UTC] No.42194713[source]▶
There is a cultural divide on where you stand wrt transphobia. The default appview is indeed not down with it, where Twitter is ofc very down with it.

The protocol is ambivalent towards it, so if you seek hate, you could host your own. I'm very fine (happy even) with the bsky team not being invested in that side of history.

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gigatree ◴[20 Nov 24 15:47 UTC] No.42194953[source]▶
And what if you just espouse the normal view that all of history & 97% of people currently on earth hold?
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happytoexplain ◴[20 Nov 24 16:04 UTC] No.42195202[source]▶
Whatever you mean, you can probably write about it without encouraging hatred for groups of people based on qualities that, by themselves, are harmless, like whether they feel male or female, are biologically male or female, are gay or straight, white or black, etc etc.
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gigatree ◴[20 Nov 24 18:17 UTC] No.42196679[source]▶
The problem is that an overwhelming amount of the left label statements not meant to be hateful as hateful, specifically: “there are two genders”.

Everything has been reduced to “hate”, to the point that it actively muddies the waters wrt actual hatred.

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jhp123 ◴[20 Nov 24 18:54 UTC] No.42196997[source]▶
why would you say "there are two genders"? You haven't heard of nonbinary gender?[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender

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1. civvis ◴[20 Nov 24 19:13 UTC] No.42197144[source]▶
That depends on your beliefs.

Some people believe that whether you're a man or a woman is based on thoughts in your head, rather than the material biological reality of your sex. They also believe that these thoughts mean you can be neither woman or man, which they call 'non-binary'.

Of course to everyone else this is a rather absurd thing to believe. Like the healing power of crystals or some nonsense like that.

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2. jhp123 ◴[20 Nov 24 19:48 UTC] No.42197428[source]▶
I disagree. Words have meaning, you can't just use your own personal definitions. The modern definition of "gender" is based on the concept of gender identity and includes more than two genders [0][1]. If you want to make your point understood by most people, you should say "there are two biological sexes", although that is also not correct[2].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gender#Noun [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender#dictionary... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

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3. slater ◴[21 Nov 24 02:22 UTC] No.42200435[source]▶
Still trying that whole "bigoted anti-trans posts from new hn account" thing, ey?
4. civvvis ◴[21 Nov 24 06:08 UTC] No.42201588[source]▶
The dictionary pages you linked to illustrate that there are multiple senses for the word 'gender' in modern use, and that its use as a shorthand for 'gender identity' is not the only one.

Also, as the Wikipedia article you linked discusses, 'intersex' is not a type of sex additional to female and male. It's a word used to group various disorders of sexual development.