If you are on Bluesky, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been around for the past few days; that’s because on Tuesday evening, some moderator over there decided I was a bad girl who needed her social media taken away to teach her a lesson about offending Trumpists. I was scanning my timeline, getting ready to close the computer for the evening, when suddenly my screen sort of blipped and I was looking at a weird generic timeline, featuring stuff from nobody I follow; in the margin was a signin button. I thought it was odd and went to sign back in, only to be told my account was suspended for violating the ToS by “hate speech”, and my account would be suspended until the 9th (no time was given). They did tell me which post was the one which had provoked their fit of pearl-clutching; it was one which stated that Trump’s poll numbers were not yet bad enough, illustrated by this picture: 
I’ve used the same picture with a similar statement literally dozens of times, with absolutely no pushback, so it’s obvious that what actually happened was mass reporting by a gang of Trumpists offended by my being mean to their god-emperor. But given that in the past Bluesky has been fairly resistant to that sort of thing, this rings an alarm bell for everyone using the site; it means not only that they’re now trying to establish more rigid censorship, but that there are now enough Trumpists over there to make a reporting-gang. Bluesky’s block function is very aggressive; blocked accounts can’t see the blocker to engage in retaliatory reporting. I’ve subscribed to several MAGA blocklists, to preemptively close off this exact risk, but clearly that is no longer sufficient because there are enough stealth Trumpists around (who haven’t yet been blocked) to organize a gang.
I have no suggestions about avoiding this, other than pointing out that the picture having actual dead people in it is probably what they took exception to. I’m merely pointing out that mass reporting has obviously made it to Bluesky, and the Trumpists have access to the weapon. According to their official email my account should be back sometime tomorrow, which means a ton of playing catch-up, and alas, the retirement of this useful image.
Another explanation can be summed up with the word algorithm.
Too often the folks who run these platforms get lazy and let computers do the work. I can see where the pic of Benito, his mistress and their lackey hanging like meat could be flagged by a machine as hate speech, regardless of context or whether the individual mentioned in conjunction deserved a similar fate.