#astroturfing — Public Fediverse posts

[P] I wish this was the kind of world where Reddit could be hit witb a big criminal investigation. For anyone who knows how to find the evidence (age of account, posting pattern, homogeneity of language across "different" accounts), it's 100% obvious that astroturfing on Reddit is ubiquitous. And the Reddit founders encourage astroturfing because they profit from it. They do all they can to enable it.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #criminal #law #illegal #astroturfing #reddit

[P] I wish this was the kind of world where Reddit could be hit witb a big criminal investigation. For anyone who knows how to find the evidence (age of account, posting pattern, homogeneity of language across "different" accounts), it's 100% obvious that astroturfing on Reddit is ubiquitous. And the Reddit founders encourage astroturfing because they profit from it. They do all they can to enable it.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #criminal #law #illegal #astroturfing #reddit

[P] I wish this was the kind of world where Reddit could be hit witb a big criminal investigation. For anyone who knows how to find the evidence (age of account, posting pattern, homogeneity of language across "different" accounts), it's 100% obvious that astroturfing on Reddit is ubiquitous. And the Reddit founders encourage astroturfing because they profit from it. They do all they can to enable it.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #criminal #law #illegal #astroturfing #reddit

[P] I wish this was the kind of world where Reddit could be hit witb a big criminal investigation. For anyone who knows how to find the evidence (age of account, posting pattern, homogeneity of language across "different" accounts), it's 100% obvious that astroturfing on Reddit is ubiquitous. And the Reddit founders encourage astroturfing because they profit from it. They do all they can to enable it.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #criminal #law #illegal #astroturfing #reddit

#Google is drawing some well deserved #backlash and #hatred for this move on fora like HN. But it's too little too late. Too many among us #betrayed the community by discrediting those who raised the #alarm when it was obvious that Google would try it again. Classic #astroturfing and #sockpuppeting.

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"...The latest front is in Michigan, where the Ann Arbor Responsible Energy Coalition (A2rec) appears to be a local, grassroots organization opposing a public power campaign in the upper midwest city of about 123,000 people. But state filings show its mailing address was One Energy Plaza – the headquarters of DTE Energy, the deeply unpopular private utility giant that serves Ann Arbor...."

#astroturfing #climate

The Guardian: Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power

As communities push for publicly owned electricity, private utilities may be deploying dark money and local front groups to stop them

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/us-utilities-fund-groups-against-public-power-lobby

#astroturfing #climateemergency #power

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/paramount-is-trying-to-blame-netflix-for-all-the-negative-merger-press/

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/paramount-is-trying-to-blame-netflix-for-all-the-negative-merger-press/

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/paramount-is-trying-to-blame-netflix-for-all-the-negative-merger-press/

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/paramount-is-trying-to-blame-netflix-for-all-the-negative-merger-press/

Paramount Is Trying To Blame Netflix For All The Negative Merger Press

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/paramount-is-trying-to-blame-netflix-for-all-the-negative-merger-press/

堀江貴文氏「キャバクラ論争」に痛烈「不細工な嫁と結婚するしかなかった非モテオタク達が…」

#ホリエモン #堀江貴文 #キャバクラ

#ひろゆき #高須克弥

#botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #astroTurf #astroTurfing
#attentionEconomy #Japanese

#ElonMusk
✨ #Japan is a great country ( to suck up money )✨

#TakafumiHorie #Hiroyuki #Epstein #JoiIto #MIT
https://youtube.com/shorts/OGjltlOCEWM?feature=share [参照]

There is so much of this BS reporting going on still, despite the #FossilFuelCrisis enabling #UsIsraelIranWar that is still happening. These #ClimateDeniers and #FossilFuelLobbyist are likely to keep it up to their graves…

“Spotlight, the so-called flagship current affairs program on the 7 network, dedicated more than an hour on Sunday evening on a report into the supply chains feeding into the renewables and EV industries, with a particular focus on cobalt mines in the Congo, and also activities in Australia. It was amplified on Murdoch and social media.
It fell over at the very first fact-check. “Every battery, every electric vehicle, every piece of so-called clean energy technology today” uses cobalt, reporter Liam Bartlett claimed at the start of the program.

Wrong.

Nearly every big battery installed in Australia these days uses (LFP) lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which means no cobalt, and no nickel (that’s relevant because Bartlett did a similar hit job on the nickel industry last year, using that as a platform to attack EVs and renewables).”

Read more:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wild-attack-on-batteries-and-renewables-by-7s-spotlight-program-falls-over-at-the-first-fact-check/

#Cobalt #Nickel #DRC #AstroTurfing #DisinformationNetworks #antifa #EatTheRich

My home PV Battery is LFP

#Hatred #ForYou #X #Twitter #Japan
児童手当の誤支給、外国人出国後も約350自治体で経験あり

京都南丹市小6女児殺害事件 養父が逮捕・殺害認める

京都高麗寺土葬墓地拡張に懸念広がるも寺側は許可済みと説明

立川市で陸上自衛隊追放を訴えるデモが発生し警察が参加者を点字ブロック上に誘導

産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2%に回復し憲法への自衛隊明記賛成59.3%

産経FNN合同世論調査で高市早苗内閣支持率70.2％に回復自衛隊明記賛成59.3％
#astroTurfing #Japan #OSINT #astroTurf #Takaichi

#ElonMusk
Great !
https://x.com/explore/tabs/for_you [参照]

#Japanese #SocialMedia #Hatred control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be

いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
これが今の池袋です😨

#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd

#botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurf #astroTurfing #Japan #OSINT #ElonMusk #X #Twitter

#Trump #Epstein #Iran #Israel #Paletine #gaza #Ukraine #Venezuela
#OSINT
https://x.com/nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd/status/2046028200120324199?s=20

#Japanese #SocialMedia #Hatred control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be

いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
これが今の池袋です😨

#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd

#botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurf #astroTurfing #Japan #OSINT #ElonMusk #X #Twitter

#Trump #Epstein #Iran #Israel #Paletine #gaza #Ukraine #Venezuela
#OSINT
https://x.com/nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd/status/2046028200120324199?s=20

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]

#News #Japan #X #Twitter
辺野古テントの献花扱いが物議、取材後バケツ放置の写真拡散

韓国海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で制度改革求める声広がる

BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か

#astroTurf #astroTurfing #OSINT #Japanese #botFarm #ClickFarm

#ElonMusk
Great Country! ( easy )

#Takaichi

#SanaeTakaichi #ShinzoAbe
https://youtube.com/shorts/-qkGsCv7-O0?feature=share

#News
#X #Twitter #Japan

食料品消費税ゼロ公約、先送り論で国民失望広がる

BBC動画きっかけで日本の空き家を外国人が積極購入か

海賊版サイト元運営者の日本帰化で日韓引渡し問題再燃

香川県の外国人向け空き家補助金に疑問の声相次ぐ

岩田明子氏が外交青書修正でメディアの中国ご注進疑い指摘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtw0cQRJ2z4&feature=youtu.be

#astroTurfing #astroTurf #Japan #OSINT

#ShigeruIshiba

#Nazi #Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi
https://x.com/explore/tabs/news

サンモニ膳場貴子「報道が過熱してデマ情報も拡散」京都男児遺棄事件めぐり問題提起

#左翼 #サヨク #パヨク #パヨパヨ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be

#botFarm #clickFarm #astroTurfing #astroTurf

#サンデーモーニング #サンモニ #SundayMorning #Japan #OSINT

#Trump #ElonMusk #Israel
Super Great！

#Palestine #gaza #Ukraine #Vanazuela

#日韓スポーツ
https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202604190000239.html

‘Independent’ group Energy for Australians that ran anti-Labor ads received more than $1m from coal lobby https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/energy-for-australians-accepted-1m-coal-australia-independent-claims
Coal Australia denies its donations to the ‘community-driven association’ amount to astroturfing, but critics accuse the group of misleading the public
#auspol #auslaw #greenwashing #astroturfing #donations #lobbying #influence

いちか
@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd

おい！マジで何だよこれ！！！

890万人もアンダークラスが苦しんでんのに、外国人労働者ばっか騒いでる場合かよ💢

年収216万で貧困率37%超えて、結婚も子育ても諦めざるを得ない日本人がこんなにいるのに😖

これを放置して「外国人増やせば解決〜」とかふざけんな‼️💢
#いちか
#@nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd
#astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #Japan #X #Twitter
https://youtube.com/shorts/XmiNnDX29Aw?feature=share

https://x.com/i/trending/2045314485490221147

#高橋洋一
日本はとっくにイラン産原油の輸入を停止しているのに、イランが日本に原油を出さないことになるかもしれない✨
#YoichiTakahashi

#竹中平蔵 #HeizoTakenaka #Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk
#Iran #Ukraine #Venezuela

#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #TaroAso #ShinzoAbe

#OSINT #Japan

#botFarm #clickFarm #socialMedia #X #Twitter #YouTube
#astroTurf #astroturfing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWhO0RVeu3Q&feature=youtu.be

#高橋洋一
日本はとっくにイラン産原油の輸入を停止しているのに、イランが日本に原油を出さないことになるかもしれない✨
#YoichiTakahashi

#竹中平蔵 #HeizoTakenaka #Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk
#Iran #Ukraine #Venezuela

#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #TaroAso #ShinzoAbe

#OSINT #Japan

#botFarm #clickFarm #socialMedia #X #Twitter #YouTube
#astroTurf #astroturfing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWhO0RVeu3Q&feature=youtu.be

ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_

追記：結婚で姓が変わったわけじゃない。
パキスタン国籍のまま、通名だけ使ってるだけ。
なのに『川崎容疑者』連呼って…これ報道として成立してる？
マスゴミの洗脳工作、そろそろ限界だろ。

#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran

#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨～🎵 I am the one on #SocialMedia God✨

https://x.com/hide_Q_/status/2045311783230185651?s=20 [参照]

ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_

このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？

#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran

#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be

#ひで2022真実を追求
#@hide_Q_

https://x.com/hide_Q_/status/2045276769197105551?s=20

https://x.com/i/trending/2045357737106919678

ひで2022真実を追求
@hide_Q_

このニュースヤバくない？
アナウンサーが何度も何度も「川崎容疑者」「川崎容疑者」って連呼してるんだけど、
本名はモハマッドアリ（パキスタン国籍24歳）だよね？

#Japan #astroTurfing #astroTurf #botFarm #clickFarm #OSINT #X #Twitter #Pakistan #Trump #Iran

#ElonMusk
✨Let it go✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=6_jetG-tAvwcZDiM&v=iwzPOPSDYmg&feature=youtu.be

#ひで2022真実を追求
#@hide_Q_

https://x.com/hide_Q_/status/2045276769197105551?s=20

[P] I just can't get over the absurd level of astroturfing on Reddit. I mean, I get it from the perspective of the owners of Reddit—they get nice, fat payouts to look the other way—but it's just... how isn't this talked about more? Reddit's gone full dead Internet. The only catharsis I've had recently is with Subnautica, where the MOMENT Krafton lost their case against the Unknown Worlds founders? Gues what happened.

#psychology #deadinternet #astroturfing #reddit #subnautica

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The Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy has published its report on The Integrity Gap: Restoring Trust in the Climate and Energy Debate https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrity/Report I made a submission on the topic of the regulation of astroturfing https://eprints.qut.edu.au/260072/ Its mentioned a few times in the final report.

#auspol #auslaw #climate #misinformation #disinformation #greenwashing #astroturfing #informationintegrity

Labour on the take again. And donations to the party from big business are not in the public interest.

https://www.theferret.scot/scottish-labour-astroturf-nuclear/

#Labour #ScottishLabour #BranchParty #Donations #VestedInterests #Corruption #Astroturfing #ScotPol

Interesting, seems to me someone is running a campaign over on Bsky to convince certain ethnicities/nationalities to go back to X and or go to Threads... perhaps to keep them in the algorithm? There was a bit of that on the Fedi awhile. (a lot of those types of accounts on Twitter have been shown to have been run offshort, to try to influence US public policy, etc.) #disinformation #astroturfing

[P] Whuf.

Court: Krafton is corrupt, entirely in the wrong, and must rehire UWE leaders.
Subnautica Subreddit: UWE leaders bad! Something something bad court!

Yeah, corporate astrlturfing definitely isn't a huge problem that Reddit has. /s I don't understand why anyone uses Reddit, almost all subs are turfed to hell and back. It's more likely for a sub to be turfed than not at this point. It's very Dead Internet.

#psych9logy #subnautica #reddit #astroturfing #corruption #deadinternettheory

MS NOW: Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate. “A week out from a crowded and contentious Democratic primary in Illinois’s 9th Congressional District, Amanda Informed, an online influencer in Florida received an email with an offer: one negative post about candidate Kat Abughazaleh on Instagram and TikTok, for $1,500.”

WARNING: the #fediverse is not immune to #blackface #astroturfing; especially in the age of #AI.

just blocked an AIslopped account literally invoking the same Bernie Sanders grievances of the last 20 years, with a guest apperance of corporatist dems new target, Zohran Mamdani.

the #USApol consultant ecosystem is a special kind of grifting hell. they are sociopaths who don't care about political parties, only how much money they can make wrecking havoc.

block them with prejudice.

Oh look, another groundbreaking exposé on the complexities of #online astroturfing—right after you solve the Herculean task of enabling JavaScript! 😅🌐 Who knew the real #disinformation was the #cookies we accepted along the way? 🍪🤦‍♂️
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01914537221108467 #astroturfing #JavaScript #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Techdirt: 37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich. ” Washington State has been exploring the RADICAL SOCIALIST ANTIFA EXTREMIST idea of having the state’s rich actually pay their taxes. That’s not been received particularly well by the extraction class, which has been making empty promises about leaving the state. Recently the state opened up […]

Its hilarious watching the hater bots calling the positive posts about starfleet academy bots

The reality is both could be bots and the internet is dead.

Loud "fandom" doesn't in the end really reflect anything, and I hope the suits actually understand that

#startrek #StarFleetAcademy #haters #shills #astroturfing #scifi #fandom #deadinternet #bots #wearebots #wearegroot

Its hilarious watching the hater bots calling the positive posts about starfleet academy bots

The reality is both could be bots and the internet is dead.

Loud "fandom" doesn't in the end really reflect anything, and I hope the suits actually understand that

#startrek #StarFleetAcademy #haters #shills #astroturfing #scifi #fandom #deadinternet #bots #wearebots #wearegroot

Its hilarious watching the hater bots calling the positive posts about starfleet academy bots

The reality is both could be bots and the internet is dead.

Loud "fandom" doesn't in the end really reflect anything, and I hope the suits actually understand that

#startrek #StarFleetAcademy #haters #shills #astroturfing #scifi #fandom #deadinternet #bots #wearebots #wearegroot

Its hilarious watching the hater bots calling the positive posts about starfleet academy bots

The reality is both could be bots and the internet is dead.

Loud "fandom" doesn't in the end really reflect anything, and I hope the suits actually understand that

#startrek #StarFleetAcademy #haters #shills #astroturfing #scifi #fandom #deadinternet #bots #wearebots #wearegroot

Its hilarious watching the hater bots calling the positive posts about starfleet academy bots

The reality is both could be bots and the internet is dead.

Loud "fandom" doesn't in the end really reflect anything, and I hope the suits actually understand that

#startrek #StarFleetAcademy #haters #shills #astroturfing #scifi #fandom #deadinternet #bots #wearebots #wearegroot

¿Crees que ese hashtag es tendencia porque la gente está enfadada? Qué tierna. Hoy te explico cómo se fabrican 50.000 personas indignadas con un solo script y 200 euros.

#Astroturfing #IngenieriaSocial #PsicologiaDeMasas #SocialMediaStrategy #EspiralDelSilencio

http://anonimageek.com/2026/02/19/astroturfing-mayorias-artificiales-bots/

So, I am a Computational Biologist. Keep that in mind. I’m an actual scientist who works with ecological concepts, specifically the microbiome. One of the most insufferable reactions to the cyberpunk era we inhabit is the emergence of anti-science ideas from the left in response to techno-fascism. The strange part is that many people on the left do not even recognize them as anti-science, because they assume the left is aligned with science and the right opposed to it; ergo, if the left says it, it must be scientific. It is insane: washing your hands is technology. Medicine is technology.

I think, because the Internet has hijacked people’s brains, many conflate technology with electronics or machines. Anthropologically, technology consists of material objects, techniques, and organized practices through which humans intentionally intervene in their environments. Technology is culture, and human culture is technology. When someone learns a skill or a discipline from someone else, that is an extension of technology.

Technology encompasses craft traditions (blacksmithing), agriculture, and institutionalized processes of teaching and learning. Agriculture is one of the oldest forms of technology. Yes, farmers are tech workers. I write code, but I also spent a large amount of time on a farm, and I can tell you that many tech workers who pride themselves on writing code would not know what to do with farm equipment.

So, from that broad perspective, we can sum technology up in one word: education. A basic heuristic for determining if something is cultural or not is: can it be taught and learned? These words? I was taught English, and I am using an invented language to transmit knowledge to you; ergo, I am using technology to transmit cultural knowledge to you. Reading a book is thus using a piece of human technology. So, being anti-tech connotes being anti-education.

What got me thinking about this is a toot I read on Mastodon:

The truth is that society needs to develop ethically and ecologically more than it does technologically. That’s not to say that we should shun technology, but our development along other lines lags far behind our technological capacity.

↬ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116052113455871454

Sounds valid, right? That is the distinct smell of bull shit.This is a clear example of what is called a platitude. Platitudes are memetically hijacking people’s brains. Memetics actually hijack your brain—they change it. It’s similar to how a retrovirus can alter the genome of its host. So, trying to have conversations with these people is pointless, which is why I avoid the chronically online Internet scene and arguing with them.

It made me want to scream. As I mentioned earlier, technology is basically a set of things you learn from other humans—typically within a culture—that helps you do or make something. You know what else is learned within human society? A normative set of cultural values about how we ought to behave. So, both technology and culture emerge from the same thing simultaneously and mutually. You cannot have humans intervening in things to achieve ecological development, because that is technology, and you cannot educate humans on ethics without an invented language. It is literally an anti-education argument.

Ethics and technology arise together from the same human conditions and social processes. It makes little sense to claim that technology is “outpacing” ethics. The two do not develop independently. We form ethical norms in response to new capacities and circumstances. There would be no cultural norms about how to use the Internet if the Internet did not exist. And, there would be no ethical debates about AI if AI did not exist. Ethical reflection emerges alongside technological change because both are products of human culture.

As new problems create new technologies that create new problems, societies respond by negotiating norms, rules, and expectations appropriate to those contexts. The same pattern appears in politics. Politics concerns who gets what, when, and how—it is the negotiation of power, rights, and resources. Without resources or competing claims, there would be nothing to negotiate. Ethics and politics are not trailing behind technology because they are co-emergent responses to the same underlying realities.

@benlockwood

Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction

A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.

The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.

So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.

That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.

These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.

The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.

Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.

Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.

I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.

Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction

A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.

The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.

So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.

That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.

These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.

The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.

Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.

Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.

I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.