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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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.
you can subscribe to block lists. heres an example of one that looks for MAGA stuff https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s
Careful with those lists though, it's not unknown for bad actors to add innocent accounts to them.
I'm on several MAGA lists because the dumber sect of Democrats can't understand that people exist to the left of them.
Dare not criticize the liberal lest ye be called a conservative.
Wait, why does George takei attract magas?
Or is he just a well known & largely followed person on bluesky?
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.
Oh, you mean a decent real human? Yeh, that makes sense they would target him
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!)
What happened @ 4chan?
They got badly hacked a while ago
goodly hacked i'd say
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.
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.
it had good bits among the bad, but it was lots of bad and the bad was REAL bad