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It amazes me that in the age of AI there isn't a way to utilise it to either talk users out of posting aggressive, illegal or inflammatory material or tag it as such, so you can filter out the blowhards on the platform.


They are actually doing some of this on bluesky.

The AI and content moderation can do all sorts of things like “this is violent, obscene, rude, self harm” or “this is a Twitter screenshot and I don’t want to see these.”

Id enjoy it if it supported filtering out us politics from “both sides” altogether. (I’m not in the USA and I’m worn out on it.)

While I like these features; bluesky wasn’t my cuppa. I had not even been on there for four hours and somebody was railing on me for not enough info in my bio or whatever. I don’t use social media (or have a Xitter to “go back to”) and I’m not performing for anybody when I do… I settled on deactivating bluesky for some time to see if it calms down.

The features are promising but, a little too confrontational , “you ain’t from around here boy” attitude for me and that’s a different kind of “toxic” that I don’t need in my life.


The blowhards drive engagement. . . Social media platforms have every incentive to keep them around.




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