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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Apr 20

Here's another remaster, right on time for Easter. Valina gave Dana some chocolate eggs (and then they had seggs).

I haven't been posting much lately cause I've been working on some 3D modeling and coding stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to share some of that at some point sooner than later.

My OC Dana wearing a bunny suit and bemoaning how her chest fails to fill the top part of it.

Her girlfriend Valina comes in to "fill" the suit with chocolate eggs, to Dana's annoyance.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Mar 13

Post a meme made by you
(credit goes to @horomotosuwa.bsky.social for the idea)

A rendition of the Timmy Turner Praying meme but with an Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40K praying to the machine god: "Please Omnissiah let this happen because it would be so fucking funny"

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thought I'd remaster that Valina cosplay of Faye Valentine for Valentine's Day.

Drawing of my catgirl OC Valina cosplaying as Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Feb 2

See a butt. Post a butt.

Had that one on my backlog of stuff to remaster.

Drawing of my catgirl OC Dana standing at a balcony railing in front of a full moon, bare bottom with her privates covered by her tail.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Dec 12

The thing is, I've actually been doing that for years now. I haven't been opening the videos, nor have I downvoted them, just clicked the side icon and "don't recommend the channel". I could technically click "not interested" but I wouldn't want Youtube to stop giving me music I do want to hear.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Dec 11

So it wasn't just me ! I keep telling Youtube to stop pushing that stuff but it keeps somehow popping up on recommendations from completely unrelated videos, I swear...

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Dec 2

A picture from 2022 that I had never posted as I wasn't satisfied with it, until I retouched it now. This portrays my characters (Catherine, Cassandre, Camille) the first time they split up into three bodies instead of just being confined to one. They had a lot to talk about.

Drawing of my OCs (left to right: Catherine, Cassandre, Camille) sitting on a couch and having a casual talk.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 26

Back to art, and now finally going into OC territory, here's a repurposed drawing from 2021. Valina loves carrying her loved ones. Cassandre loves having her feet on the ground. A true love story.

Drawing of my OCs, Valina (orange catgirl) proudly carrying in her arms her girlfriend Cassandre (purple-haired), who's lovingly annoyed.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 26

I'll keep the current list up for a bit longer but I'll remove it afterwards. Truth is, having a 3000+ user list simply existing on my account does make certain bits of the Bluesky interface considerably slower, and I'd rather keep that isolated somewhere else as a result.

Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 26

So I noticed that a few people started following this account due to my moderation list... Thing is, I would rather this remained mostly an account for art and other endeavors of mine, so what I did instead was set up a separate account for moderation-related stuff: bsky.app/profile/kana...

bsky.app

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'll link to mine here as well. bsky.app/profile/kana... It started as a simple process to weed out a few trolls but turned into a massive undertaking to add all of the accounts spamming the same stuff over and over, all verified manually. I don't know for sure how many are in there at this point.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 21

Do you have some kind of tool or method to make the process faster ? I realize on my own list that the longer it gets, the longer it takes for the moderation buttons to even appear in the first place. Even with some automation, it becomes a hassle from my experience.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sometimes they really do spend time writing posts/replies that aren't just copy-pasted, but then their username is just a slur with some numbers (not sure why Bluesky even allows it) and bio is something like "here to own the libs". Some real whiplash when witnessing their behavior.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 21

Je dirais que la modération fait ce qu'elle peut mais est clairement débordée (bsky.app/profile/safe...). Je fais ce que je peux de mon côté pour maintenir une liste de modération mais c'est pas génial non plus ; plus la liste est longue, plus l'interface de blocage met de temps à apparaître.

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · Nov 15

In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour. To put that into context, in all of 2023, we received 360k reports.

We’re triaging this large queue so the most harmful content such as CSAM is removed quickly.

Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 20

Here's my own, mostly focused on obvious trolls going for that one spam phrase and similar ones. I check each account by hand and then use an automated script to add them to the list in bulk, making the process a bit less painful. I wish I knew how many are in there by now. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 19

@bsky.app Currently, I think that user moderation tools are ill-prepared for targeted attacks of this scale. Too many clicks, too much waiting for buttons to appear, some bugs. I built an automated tool to help with the process, but it regularly runs into snags like failing to find users that exist.

Example of a random bug where a user is searched by handle through the Add function in Moderation lists but can't be found despite that user existing.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 19

I have been at work building up a massive block list for as many of them as I could find, but they just keep coming. I try to keep it updated but catching them while not misfiring is an ordeal. Quite a few people use the same words as them, in order to mock or disprove them. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · Nov 19

So my analysis of the troll situation... it likely all started from an infamous "anti-woke" Twitter account that spread misinformation about Bluesky, leading to a brigading campaign, likely by that account's followers, against this site. Easily recognizable by repeated, low effort calling cards.