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Ahri Boy (archived)Apr 27, 2023

@fribbledom we don't even know if Bluesky instances would moderate and defederate content from other instances

@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

@hughster @ahriboy @fribbledom They are moderating it, by not showing it.

@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.

@ekana @ahriboy @fribbledom I think it'd be quite easy to figure out whether or not you've been flagged by whether or not you're able to elicit replies from any "normies".

Hughster

@ekana @ahriboy @fribbledom And I'm not sure that this does happen on Mastodon, or at least not on this server. The moderation is so quick and so effective that I've seen next to zero extremist content here since I joined.