Paul Frazee

So you would no longer see each other's stuff, but like your previous interactions would just kind of be frozen in time and public. On Blue Sky, it actually causes all interactions previously between you to also essentially go away. They just show content not available.

So you would no longer see each other's stuff, but like your previous interactions would just kind of be frozen in time and public. On Blue Sky, it actually causes all interactions previously between you to also essentially go away. They just show content not available.

And so we actually have a very sort of really aggressive toolkit for blocking, and we're encouraging people to put together block lists and to subscribe to them. And again, that kind of gets into the point of view that we have, which is just that there are just some people who can't coexist very well. And I don't think trying to force them to do that is a great idea.

And so we actually have a very sort of really aggressive toolkit for blocking, and we're encouraging people to put together block lists and to subscribe to them. And again, that kind of gets into the point of view that we have, which is just that there are just some people who can't coexist very well. And I don't think trying to force them to do that is a great idea.

I think that's why you get so much toxicity in social networks. And it felt even more pressing when we're creating this open design and sort of like

I think that's why you get so much toxicity in social networks. And it felt even more pressing when we're creating this open design and sort of like

loosening up the control that we have over participation, we wanted a way to articulate really aggressively, almost like your own perimeter, since the website is no longer a perimeter for the social network, being able to say, no, this is kind of a group that I'm keen to be hanging out with. And if you're in this list, I'm not, I just don't want to be in the same public space as you.

loosening up the control that we have over participation, we wanted a way to articulate really aggressively, almost like your own perimeter, since the website is no longer a perimeter for the social network, being able to say, no, this is kind of a group that I'm keen to be hanging out with. And if you're in this list, I'm not, I just don't want to be in the same public space as you.

And it comes with pros and cons, you know, I won't say that it's like a pure win. Sometimes it can be really frustrating for people, I'm quite sure. But I think it's important that people are able to make that choice for themselves. I don't really like the idea that people should be forced to share space with each other. So that's the mentality.

And it comes with pros and cons, you know, I won't say that it's like a pure win. Sometimes it can be really frustrating for people, I'm quite sure. But I think it's important that people are able to make that choice for themselves. I don't really like the idea that people should be forced to share space with each other. So that's the mentality.

Yeah. Yeah. Now we're attracting raids, right? Like, the persistent, automated, like, harassment campaigns. And so we've had to really aggressively scale up our tooling to deal with that. And, you know, that is... Thankfully, we designed the whole system to be prepared for that. We just had to get the tooling in place. But then, you know, on a long enough timeline, we all know the game.

Yeah. Yeah. Now we're attracting raids, right? Like, the persistent, automated, like, harassment campaigns. And so we've had to really aggressively scale up our tooling to deal with that. And, you know, that is... Thankfully, we designed the whole system to be prepared for that. We just had to get the tooling in place. But then, you know, on a long enough timeline, we all know the game.

Like, the bot fight is hard, and it just got a whole lot harder with AI. And we're starting to putz around with a couple of things that might help with that. But yeah, somebody, some jerks made a... AI bot army that just would disagree a little bit with people. That was their angle.

Like, the bot fight is hard, and it just got a whole lot harder with AI. And we're starting to putz around with a couple of things that might help with that. But yeah, somebody, some jerks made a... AI bot army that just would disagree a little bit with people. That was their angle.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Thanks a lot, you know?

Oh, my God. Thanks a lot, you know?

Oh, gosh. I wouldn't say it's terribly surprised. I mean, it's discouraging. It definitely makes you go, ah, I wish better of the world, but we all know it's a bit of a dark forest, so...

Oh, gosh. I wouldn't say it's terribly surprised. I mean, it's discouraging. It definitely makes you go, ah, I wish better of the world, but we all know it's a bit of a dark forest, so...