The waffles eat Bluesky | Techcrunch

In the past few days, my Bluesky flow has been increasingly filled with mysterious messages on waffles.

The back and forth seems to have started with a post ironic from Jerry Chen to Lampi a form of bite on social networks which has become too recognizable on Bluesky: “(The user Bluesky bursts in Waffle House) Oh so you hate the pancakes ??”

The CEO of Bluesky, Jay Graber, cited this approving, adding: “Too real. We will try to solve this problem. Social media should not be so.” Another user then asked: “Have you all prohibited Jesse Singal or” to which Graber simply replied: “Gaul!”

The presence of ScoLal on Bluesky was a flash point last year – while Bluesky made herself early as a paradise for Trans users, Mémal was widely criticized for his writing on trans problems. A Petition Change.org arguing that Singal has violated the community directives of the social network and calling Bluesky to prohibit it received more than 28,000 signatures, and he was the most blocked user of Bluesky until the vice-president JD Vance exceeds it.

In a follow -up article, Graber wrote: “The harassment of mods to ban someone has never worked. And harass people in general has never changed their mind. ” She also alluded to the controversy by publishing a photo of Wink Wink-Wink Nudge De Gauve, just like Magnalese.

Users continued to criticize it – when we compared the criticism to a client threatening to cancel his service, Graber asked: “Do you pay? Or?” When another suggested that she should apologize, Graber said, “You could try a poster strike. I heard that it works.”

It could be tempting to reject all of this as another example of left struggle, especially since Bluesky speech has already gone to the question of whether “clanker” is an insult.

Or maybe, as a satirical account suggested, there was “a one-week gas leak at Bluesky headquarters”.

But the controversy also highlights the current tensions between the company and some of its most vocal users. It is a tension that could be seen last month in skeptical responses to the company’s updates of the company, and in recurring complaints according to which Bluesky was too fast to prohibit Palestinian and Trans users, while offering leniency to large accounts like Magnalese.

It can be simplistic to reduce this tension to a single cause, but I suspect that a large part of this comes from different visions on what makes Bluesky special: if you think it is the community of Bluesky, in particular this first community of marginalized users, then this can look like betrayal when Bluesky leaders do not seem dissuasive for these users.

A user who publishes under the name of Katie Tirmpussy AA issued the hypothesis that Bluesky’s leadership came to hate “having a great application of social media that they never wanted” and suggested to them to run it so that they could return “in terms of protocol where they never think about the opinions of the Plébeians”.

Indeed, when Graber does not respond to criticism with articles on waffles, it resisted the identification of Bluesky with a specific group or a political inclination, rather stressing the decentralized protocol which allows users to build their own alternatives over it.

In the middle of the current controversy, she posted on “the acceleration of decentralization” and wrote: “We are system architects at Core. We have built a decentralized network so that you can execute your own moderation, “suggested that the” company’s healthy discourse project takes some swings to the interaction model that causes these dynamics on Bluesky “.

Graber may even have planned part of this conflict when Bluesky begins and she was considering a decentralized system that would allow users to migrate elsewhere if they are unhappy with the company leadership. As she would have written in the founding documents of Bluesky, “society is a future opponent”.