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Ahri Boy (archived)@fribbledom we don't even know if Bluesky instances would moderate and defederate content from other instances
Hughster@ahriboy @fribbledom Sadly it appears they won't moderate hate speech, and will continue the techbro "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach" dogma:
https://mastodon.social/@hughster/110259609667652608
https://mastodon.social/@hughster/110259609667652608
ekana@ekana @ahriboy @fribbledom But it's still there. They'll still be able to recruit and organise, as well as harass and stalk people even if what they're saying is hidden.
@hughster @ahriboy @fribbledom At best they can stalk, they can't really harass because the user (whose presumably hiding these bad actors through there algorithm) wont even see them saying things on there post. Sure they may be able to organize, but they can organize on mastodon too, they can organize and recruit anywhere on the internet.
@ekana @ahriboy @fribbledom And they can still harass, because they could easily marshall other users on the network who haven't yet been hate-flagged, as well as targeting the huge numbers of users who've neglected to flick the hate switch to "off".
They can organise on Mastodon, yes, but on tiny walled-off servers where all they can see and reach is other extremists. There's no reason to give them another huge mainstream platform to use.
@hughster @ahriboy @fribbledom the hate switch is off by default. So no chance someone will have it on unless someone intentionally turns it on. They don't know whether they've been flagged or not to really coordinate in such a way, but at that point it's just a brigade, and again that can happen on all networks. It's at that point that your block button should be ready, and your provider would come in for assistance.
@hughster @ahriboy @fribbledom usually in this story the user would take their account private to weather the storm but I'm not sure if Bluesky has that option. But again, it's not like these things don't happen of mastodon.
I'm not saying it's perfect, it's not, but no system is perfect. But the good this is it's being built in the open, and soon people will be able to directly contribute.