Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation
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from spaduf@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 2024 02:37
https://slrpnk.net/post/7575778
from spaduf@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 2024 02:37
https://slrpnk.net/post/7575778
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They sure are moving in a faster pace.
Yea I was surprised it came out so quickly. It will apparently be up and running by the end of the week or so. It makes sense though, this is the piece that makes their system a viable idea for social media.
They have millions in funding, they will always move at a faster pace. The question is in which direction they will move, I suppose.
Bluesky finally allows the community to run their own labeller services. This blog post summarize how bluesky federation system works and how the labeler service fit in.
I hope activity pub also follows along with updates
Reading “at Bluesky” in every second sentence gave me futuristic dystopian movie vibes.
Not sure about fediverse following along given that, essentially, creating an account on a server is adopting the server admin’s moderation policy.
Having said that, there might be some value in being able to overlay multiple moderation filters - though not sure at what point you create such a siloed experience as to be a net negative.
Bluesky is now a federated network, just incompatible with ActivityPub.
I wouldn’t really compare Bluesky to Mastodon. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network until third parties launch their own AppViews and relays.
Yeah BlueSky has a lot of control over the network but I wouldn’t say that email isn’t federated because Google controls a lot of the email network.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Bluesky released a personal data server implementation openly. But now that they did, it looks like the AT protocol network minimally qualifies as federated.
Somebody has got to explain to me how being a for-profit company with investors doesn’t categorically make it impossible for a company to produce anything other than a product and an open social network that has no bottlenecks or levers of power to monetize to the degree required to return on a huge investment is NOT a product.
It is a prototype for a product that happens to be selling itself to early adopters on a promise it can never keep if it wants to be a successful product.
Bluesky promising to commit to a truly open federated structure is in a poetic sense the exact same thing as Pete Buttigieg promising to support Medicare for all.
In other words, why should I trust you bluesky when I can just pick literally anybody else who I actually have some reason to believe will do anything other than serve the status quo while smiling and saying words I like (which for nerds is nerding out about the AT protocol while entirely ignoring the obvious power dynamics, politics and end goal at play here).
I am not questioning the motivations of the developers of bluesky doing most of the labor, but they will never truly have a say in the direction of bluesky because they are building something for someone else to own whether they realize that is why they have such a good paycheck or not.
I’d say the beauty is you’re open to silo yourself off as much or as little as you want. As long as the actual blue sky team doesn’t go too crazy with their own moderation I think it creates a healthy community