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Dan Gillmor Apr 30, 2023

@mmasnick done by far the best job of chronicling the Twitter/Musk follies and the resulting social media diaspora. His 6-months-later piece, on where we stand in what I hope will be a massive move to decentralized networking, is a must-read: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

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Max Kennerly Apr 30, 2023

@dangillmor @mmasnick I know it makes me finicky, but:

1) boilerplate EULA terms
2) minimal moderation capability
3) no block feature, then rushed out block feature

Suggest to me that Bluesky really is ill-prepared to run a social network. They're going down the usual techbro path of putting 45% effort into engineering, 45% effort into looking cool for a handful of investors, 10% effort into solving known difficult problems of products like theirs.

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Mike Masnick ✅Apr 30, 2023

@maxkennerly @dangillmor that's incorrect. If they didn't have plans to fix all that you'd have a point. But they did all this with plans to fix things. It's a question of timing. They haven't launched yet (only beta testing) because they knew all along that they need these things for launch. Very different from "tech bros" who just don't know any better. The Bluesky team actually understands this stuff.

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Max Kennerly Apr 30, 2023

@mmasnick @dangillmor Sure, Bluesky has a plan for moderation: the 'community' will do it, via server-level moderation and third-party 'community labeling' and so forth.

Which is a plan, I suppose, but it's not operational. Their primary moderation method is not even alpha testing yet. If it's true they know what they're doing, then the takeaway is they don't really care about moderation at all, it's an afterthought.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

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David

@mmasnick @maxkennerly @dangillmor Based on the Matthew Yglesias incident, the real #Bluesky moderation policy is Bluesky will ban people who annoy the #elite social media people they want to post on their platform. This isn’t a bad business decision - in fact I would say it’s a good business decision because it makes moderation a lot easier. But it’s unsurprising the non-elite would hate such a policy.