if lowtax's widow said she felt like lowtax had possessed me based on my behavior I'd throw every internet connected device I own in a pit
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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Wait, who is she referring to in the screenshot? I'm not sure how Twitter works in that regard.
Background:
Jay (Graber) is the CEO of Bluesky. Lately it has been “a thing” for a certain cohort to reply to every one of her posts (along with other heads of like dev and moderation) for a while now calling for the banning or bemoaning the lack of banning of a particular user that has a reputation of an anti-trans media pundit, Jesse Singal. A big foundation of one of the early cohorts of users on Bluesky were a large section of trans users and allies.
Bluesky is getting to the size as well where it’s starting to develop some of the early Twitter environment where someone posting “I love pancakes” immediately gets a bunch of replies (on accounts with large enough reach) of “WHY DO YOU HATE WAFFLES‽” types.
Jay posted both (same day or very close) about trying to navigate a solution for this effect, and how harassing the moderators isn’t a way to get people to share your vision. She then replied to someone hijacking a reply thread to call for Singal’s ban again with “WAFFLES!” And that escalated the situation with the cohort that is bothered by Singal’s continued presence.
This was an excellent explanation of the background, thank you!