copy pasting threads into here, unstructured thoughts

Software Regulations:

september 6, 2025

how logically inconsistent is it for me to desire stringent regulations on hardware and other physical products for the fact that they occupy space and consume resources in their production but im otherwise very lassiez faire on software because there is no such costs for them

like I have almost no issue with government overreach mandating hardware design through law but I find it perturbing to see that for software

software costs energy to run is a rebuttal, need for data privacy maybe too?

further thoughts on this:

People write bad software. I write bad software. I am always scared to publish software with write/delete access despite doing CRUD slop for a living. If you do it wrong, people lose shit. Thus regulations are good. My mindspace when writing this thread was when I was looking at the EU forcing Apple to let users delete Safari from their phones if they want to. I still think that shit is silly and will always be (mandate open bootloaders on iphones instead.) But, now I think companies should be held responsible to ensure data integrity, security, and software that doesn't spy.

EU laws are somewhat good here, GDPR's data protection requirements, right to deletion, and consent frameworks address real harms (data breaches ruin lives, surveillance capitalism erodes autonomy). But the EU is equally dumb in other ways: current legislation to mandate backdoors into encryption is horrifying and a prime example of why regulations can and do overstep.

Content Warnings on Bluesky:

September 1, 2025

always going to feel this is cop shit on some levels

a label is fine but a ‘warning’ carries implications

and it does anyway your community of cops need to make it yourself lol, it isn’t hard to set up a labeler

I want a content warning for anything related to Oscar’s, Emmy’s etc I literally could not care in any capacity.

I just can’t take any of these posts seriously because they never say what’s making them upset and when I do check it’s genuinely over something that’s whatever like diaper art lol. fme people here do a good job of CWing blood, guts, vomit, things that can actually cause automatic physical reactions

you wouldn’t take me seriously if I asked you to content warning (ie: self censor) any posts about football would you

the Adult Content label is already such a sledgehammer of a content 'warning' i dont know why we need more

Another thread, about the same topic, August 24, 2025

imagine instead of having three different vague labels that are ‘sexual, sexual but more sexual, or very sexual’ (ETA im refering to the three sexual content labels you can apply to images on your posts on bluesky) it was instead a list of tags like naked body, penetrating sex, implied nude, etc. its even more funny that the bsky labels only apply over images anyway

erotica is fine but a woman’s ass? shadowrealm

it also solves that ‘I don’t want to see furry art ever’ from the 75% of this site’s user base I guess

further thoughts on this:

These are contradictory from me. I was being somewhat obtuse/edgy on the first, but I do think just a "THIS IS PORN" warning is fine? Im just slightly frustrated that the labels exist to censor and not really be descriptive. Especially when you follow people you know would be posting diaper porn. Insisting they 'warn' their content when theyve almost definitely already put a 'sexually suggestive' or 'adult' label on it is cop shit (i do not care about discover feed, dont use it if you dont want to be surprised by weird (to you) things).

But if we do want to keep this system of censorship (WHICH I DO WANT, NOT SAYING IT IS AN INHERENT BAD THING), maybe it would be fine if the labels were actually existent?

I guess what im wrestling with here is user agency/imposed moralism. Bluesky pretends that its about user choice but the labels actually just imposes moralism I feel with the three levels of nudity, sexually suggestive, and adult being a hierarchy of shame. So I guess ill retract what i said later on september but will say if 75% of the site could turn off say 'furry art' as a neutral category, there'd be a lot less performative shaming that the discover feed surfers do, but it does enforcing norms when its framed to me as "you NEED to warn me about your degenerate content"