Comment on Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation
whereisk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 8 months ago
Bluesky is now a federated network, just incompatible with ActivityPub.
airportline@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I wouldn’t really compare them. Ultimately, the Bluesky team still has control over what’s allowed on the app and what’s allowed on the network.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 8 months ago
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.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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 the fuck 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).