Bluesky is NOT a safe space for people of color and the only people I see saying that are white.
I just got dogpiled by a horde of literally hundreds of white trans women with massive victim complexes who apparently get off on cyberbullying people they deem transmisogynists or otherwise worthy targets every day of their lives, once the other day and once two weeks ago. Why? Because I made a post directed at two people pointing out that their total indifference to transitions that don't resemble their own was informed by white privilege, and they all decided to take it personally, leaving 70+ replies, most of them namecalling.
They have no account locking even still, so if you end up targeted your best hope is to sit there and take it and wait for it to end. So what protection, what recompense, did the moderators end up offering me? A three day ban for sexual and gender identity based harassment, without citation of specific infringing posts. These people were in my mentions and wouldn't leave! All the people who dogpiled me called me an "incel living in their mom's basement", a "creep", a "bitch", a "crybully", a "meme gender", told me to "choke", block evaded me to harass me more, repeatedly said "you'll never be one of us" and so on, they didn't get anything.
Maybe I said something trollish that crossed the line about stereotypes, I don't remember, but for the most part I resent that what I was doing was gender identity based or harassment, which is of course what they were saying. And the sexual harassment claim I think had to do with poor phrasing informed by character limit, where I was trying to preempt the notion that all trans women are gender-nonconforming and unfortunately used the phrase "secret penis". But I would not call that sexual harassment, let alone targeted at a few people, because I was speaking technically and generally.
It's just definitely part of a pattern on Bluesky (and other platforms). The platform's design encourages mobbing to a degree never seen on Cohost or even Fediverse, unless you yourself are well enmeshed in a large community of dunk artists and dogpilers, the main ones of which consist of white trans women with terrible un-intersectional politics. They call it "an immune response to harassment" yet very clearly go after people who they just don't like or who are inconvenient, goading them into justifying their own harassment; meanwhile, trans people of color have no such clusters and have to do what we've always done when we're uncomfortable- back up and log off. "Safety", as is so often, is used as a way to justify punches down and exclusion.
We are invited to these clusters only in theory. In reality, they are full of people subtextually hostile to us, who have nothing in common with us, never speak to people different from themselves and don't intend to start. People who will employ privileged tears when they are confronted. People who react with scorn when encountering people who are unable to leave the closet due to material circumstances and go "just move to a group house bro", ignoring all the stories of dysfunction and abuse that our white friends and partners have told us and the fact that we are not able to easily find people who will become obsessed with us because we're "just like them" and invite us into their homes. People who imply members of traditional third genders are "cissexual" because they don't take HRT. People who think the end goal of transition is to pass. People who will write quasi-fetishistic posts gushing about "the inner divinity and inherent beauty of a trans woman", when really they just mean their white mutuals on HRT who post nudes. Because people who are both sexually available and loaded with the privilege of being one of the 1-3 white body types the internet types drool over and will extend their comradery towards take primacy.
If you are not sexually and socially available and desirable, you simply don't matter as much; and those regulating who is desirable are immature racist binarists with self-imposed blinders who never interact with anyone outside of their bubble "for safety reasons" and can't handle criticism.