Comment on Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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).

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