So the Japanese illustrators have been migrating from Xitter to Bluesky, and there's been a bunch of people reporting all the loli posts as CSAM, even if it's really just innocent cute anime girl art, not swimsuits or whatnot, and making all their posts about their crusade to stop this.
Because they keep calling anime watchers pedos, it's been me with a mini ban-hammer playing whack-a-mole with these accounts every few days.
The worst part is, they actually get followers, likes and reposts, so their posts rise when using a 'engagement' sort instead of chronological. Which makes it easier for me to whack-a-mole them, but it's just destroying the quality of feed.
Yeah, looks like my Bluesky Anime feed is almost back to levels before Bluesky was open to public access.
@anianimalsmoe Makes you wonder why nobody ever cared about them when they were still on Twitter.
@smochi 'The algorithm' back when it was Twitter was very good at separating people. Japanese posts were very isolated from everyone else.
Bluesky's default strategy of defaulting to 'popular in entire network' as a default feed was a very stupid idea.
There's a Venture-backed startup of 13 people rebuilding a 'Twitter-like' algorithm feed, and it's one of the two default feeds of new users, but it needs to analyze likes and posts before it can do something, meanwhile the 'popular' feed shows loli art to grandmas.
@anianimalsmoe Maybe someone needs to build forked Bsky infrastructure for the Japanese market. Federation is possible and the software components are open source, so this may very well happen.
Although I don't see why they don't just switch to Misskey/Mastodon. That network is already established, and many problems have been solved. With Bsky, they'll have to reinvent many wheels.
@smochi
People chase hype.
What's very odd about the Misskey situation is that I was listening to あつまれ!ささもり on onsen radio, and someone wrote them a letter complaining about the fragmentation of social media. And they mentioned Mixi, Instagram, Xitter and Bluesky, but NOT Misskey
I'm not sure how the situation on the ground is like, but it does sound like Misskey isn't as fashionable as we'd like to think.
@anianimalsmoe The Bluesky HOA is at it again.
Hopefully it will eventually led them to the Fediverse, but of course I’m finding ways to filter actual l*li/sh**ta posts. Recent tools that got added thanks to the SPAM tools help against that, However, tt’s not full proof..
I kind of wish Japanese artists used separate accounts for that kind of stuff. Hopefully one day, Misskey will catch on, but it’s pretty much in the early days.
@chikorita157 @anianimalsmoe i'm always amused that Japanese artists who don't even draw really weird lolishota stuff still are supportive of their friends who do and give them lots of boosts lol
anyway the ability to turn off boosts is a godsend
@anianimalsmoe@sakurajima.moe i wish bsky didnt exist :sob:
@anianimalsmoe There's a growing contingent, especially on the left, to keep calling anime fans "pedophiles" because they all think anime started in like the 2000s when moe got big. Never mind that even among normie anime fans, they wouldn't realize a show is """""supposedly"""" for lolicons, because they take the show at face value. (Never mind as well that just because you find lolicon artists doing fanart for a show, doesn't mean the show is loli. Like, as a magical girl fan, I'd have to throw out almost every show then by that metric
I would say ignore those people in general, for they are unhinged, but it will start to bleed elsewhere until it reaches people old enough to be my mother, who also have been on the left their entire lives and are working in the industry...
All of my rambling above was to just say a lotta people shouldn't have had access to the internet lmao, they've ruined the meaning of words
(For the record, I don't like lolishota and even I think this kind of reaction is. A Lot. )
@anianimalsmoe *Caveat, I meant ignore in general, I realize curating your Bsky feed is a lot harder when trying to do that