@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.

@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

@mmasnick @maxkennerly @dangillmor moderation and blocking are MVP features for a social media app these days, since we all know that they are critical to a successful platform

I would say that their beta is premature from a technical perspective and looks like a FOMO marketing stunt

@mmasnick @maxkennerly @dangillmor yeah, I think you are wrong, too.

I'm not sniffing around for the next great social network, so I have a particular bias against hype