Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦Apr 16
Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
Show threadCyberFrogApr 16
@osma oh hey cool they're doing exactly what I said they'd do, which is never federate and then slowly become yet another walled garden

it's literally built by the former twitter CEO, who left over arguments about federation not happening, like.... come on here...
Show threadAbhiramApr 16
@froge @osma No no, he left because they started doing content moderation and people were making fun of his beard. I'm not even joking.
Show threadAbhiramApr 16

@froge @osma I come bearing receipts: https://nypost.com/2024/05/10/tech/why-jack-dorsey-quit-bluesky-it-was-repeating-all-mistakes-twitter-made/

Over at Bluesky, “little by little, they [the users] started asking Jay [Graber, the CEO] and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it,” Dorsey told Pirate Wires.

Why Jack Dorsey quit Bluesky board: It was 'literally repeating all the mistakes' Twitter made

The 47-year-old tech mogul had envisioned that Twitter could be an open-source software that wasn’t controlled by any single person or entity.

New York Post
Show threadAntonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦Apr 16

@axel @froge @osma

Dorsey is a buffoon. He wants to invent the fediverse, which is already invented

Show threadLightApr 16
@paezha
What does he want to invent exactly?
@axel @froge @osma
Show threadAbhiramApr 16
@light @paezha @froge@social.glitched.systems @osma He basically wants to reinvent twitter but without content moderation and decentralized.
Show threadLightApr 16
@axel
What does "without content moderation mean"?
@froge @paezha @osma
Show threadAbhiram
@light @froge@social.glitched.systems @paezha @osma it almost always means being able to say slurs or other unpleasant things on main without being blockable.
Apr 16 at 3:23pmWeb
Show threadLightApr 16
@axel
Blockable by whom?
I doubt he wants people to be forced to listen to content they find disturbing.
@froge @paezha @osma
Show threadAbhiramApr 16
@light @froge@social.glitched.systems @paezha @osma That's actually exactly what he wants. He even said as much some time ago.

He thinks that moderation should only be dictated algorithmically and users shouldn't control what they can/can't see. He's one of those "free speech absolutist" types. ​​
Show threadLightApr 16
@axel
That's pretty insane. Do you have a source?
I have come across some people on #Nostr who said that blocking is anti-free-speech too. To me, freedom of speech isn't the only aspect to freedom. There is also freedom of association and freedom of listening.
@froge @paezha @osma
Show threadLightApr 16
@axel
>only be dictated algorithmically
Lol wtf
@froge @paezha @osma
Show threadAbhiramApr 16
@light @froge@social.glitched.systems @paezha @osma You can read about his thoughts over here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221214000628/https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jackjack/issues/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-1503112

Surprisingly the original post no longer exists, so I had to go hunting through the wayback machine for it. 😄

This was posted shortly after the whole twitter files thing happened.
a native internet protocol for social media

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.Only the original author may remove content they produce.Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter …