#bluesky's approach to #moderation:
"fuck that job, you do it... uh, freedom!"
voila:
but then they police *that*
so in the end it's a trick to keep the hamsters running on the wheel of "bluesky is #decentralized and free!"
nope
#corporate #socialMedia doesn't like moderation
1. it's a cost center: you need to pay #moderators
2. it squelches #bigots and #trolls
but they mean outrage -> eyeballs and clicks -> engagement, their bread and butter
#moderation is a human endeavor and is subjective
there will be grey areas
the idea is to be as rigorous as possible and allow for goofs, as long as there are standards and reviews
none of this has anything to do with the idea of #composableModeration
at best it's #bluesky corporate going "fuck moderation, you do it"
and then of course the result is crap
so they try to police *that*
and the blowback: "you said we could do it, but you're not letting us"
the whole idea is bullshit
sure, a #blocklist can be capricious and abusive, and subject to pique
but the overarching concept is that anyone makes a blocklist, and makes it as rigorous and comprehensive, or random and shoddy, as they want
and then people subscribe to it or not depending upon its quality (or lack thereof: is the theoretical harm in that a problem if it is self-imposed?)
if #bluesky corporate polices that, then what we get is they've removed the entire premise of #composableModeration
A #blocklist is not going to be polite
It's a blocklist after all
So much for "#composableModeration" on #centralized #Bluesky
"There is a technical story, of how #Bluesky and #ATProto do #composablemoderation for specific countries. But this is not just an interesting technology, it has implications of #government #censorship more broadly. Not only is #Turkey's censorship of accounts even easier to #sidestep, it also allows for new ways to highlight and create #visibility for the content that the Turkish government wants to be hidden.
…a closer look at how #moderation works on Bluesky."
https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-based-moderation/
This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.
Composable moderation is one of the things ATProto/BlueSky gets right, along with account portability between data stores. I wonder how much of this can be added to fediverse software using the Zot creator's FEPs? Which I assume are being implemented in his new project called Forte;
https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte
#fediverse #ComposableModeration #ATProto #BlueSky #AccountPortability #Zot #FEP #Forte
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