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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Aug 19, 2026, 9:34 PM

    Any good faith I was willing to extend towards Bluesky and ATProto has long since been incinerated, with a few special highlights along the way:

    • Overriding their own moderation team to protect Jesse Singal
    • The then-CEO workshopping new transphobic slurs with Singal (that hilariously failed to take off, thankfully)
    • Bluesky's declaration via Attie that anything reachable via ATProto is theirs for AI training
    • Bluesky adopting vibe coding to piss off trans people they don't like

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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Aug 19, 2026, 9:38 PM

    With apologies to dril, you don't gotta hand it to them, actually. My best argument against ATProto is that Bluesky, a company that by all apparent actions hates me and would rather that I die, thinks it is in their best interests if I use ATProto.

    It may well be that our interests overlap, but I haven't gone too wrong in listening to what my enemies want me to do, then not doing that; it at least works as a pretty good heuristic.

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  • Cassandrichdalias@hachyderm.io
    Aug 19, 2026, 10:14 PM

    @xgranade That last part--

    "listening to what my enemies want me to do, then not doing that"

    --is sooooo underrated.

    In any situation where it's unclear (morally, tactically, or whatever) what you should do, it's almost always the optimal answer.

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  • Cassandra has had an adventurexgranade@wandering.shop
    Aug 19, 2026, 10:21 PM

    @dalias It can definitely go wrong, but when you don't have anything else to go on? Wow, does it ever work well as a heuristic.

    Definitely not a robust philosophy, but it doesn't need to be to be useful as a rough rule to go by in situations with limited information.

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