Bluesky is cracking down on impersonators and scammers.

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    They should address actual concerns, but make it clear they won’t overstep afterwards like all of the other social media apps before them.

    That is what I wrote.

    You say they are only acting on ones where the company switched away from bsky.social, but squatters and scammers are not limited to only the ones they switched away from. To address squatters and scammers they will need to address those how got there first too. That is a necessity, but also the start of a slippery slope that they need to put the brakes on before they go down the familiar path to taking joke accounts.

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      19 hours ago

      Ok. But again, this isn’t that.

      No part of this particular change, is even step one of what you’re talking about.

      This is literally only stopping new users from registering accounts under handles someone used before, but switched away from.

      It’s straight up a "correct " solution.

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        19 hours ago

        Yes, this one step is correct. They need to be clear it will be limited to this one step.

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          16 hours ago

          I don’t share your view.

          Company doing good thing without simultaneously promising it won’t do bad thing doesnt automatically mean BAD THING WILL ABSOLUTELY SUPER DUPER CERTAINLY HAPPEN NEXT.

          The opposite, actually.

          When corpos are specific about bad thing definitely not being planned, that’s when it is DEFINITELY the next step.