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[–] WarshipJesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bluesky is weird to me. I tried to use it for all of 15 minutes. One of the recommended feeds was called "Blacksky", which is a feed specifically tailored for black users of Bluesky. I'm perfectly fine with that. I was, completely innocently, asking if there were other feeds based on race, similar to blacksky. I was threatened with a ban for racism. My question was very literally phrased "I see that blacksky exists, does the platform also have other race-specific feeds for users? Or only this one? It's the only one that was recommended to me which seems strange for a new user."

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

There’s been a large-ish influx of maga users, looking for people to harass in the last week as the other normies have left Twitter too because they are sad and lonely people, so people’s ban fingers especially those with large accounts, are a bit heavy right now. So yeah, it probably completely came off wrong (like someone asking when white history month is) vs asking if there was a specific other ethnic starter pack that drew your interest. Sorry that was your experience.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Being threatened with a ban goes way too far, but your question(s) as phrased does seem very much like sealioning even if that wasn't the intention, so I can see why a moderator might think it was. Obviously, they should have clarified first.