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People Are People, or Why I Don't Want to Be a Landlord

https://oddevan.com/2025/10/13/people-are-people-or-why.html

People Are People, or Why I Don't Want to Be a Landlord

There’s a dustup going on over at Bluesky over moderation decisions. I won’t go into details because—for the purposes of this blog post—I’m less focused on why the dustup is happening and more that it is happening. It’s happening at Bluesky, it happens on Mastodon, it happened on Tumblr, and it will keep happening in the future despite all the best intentions. And I need to stop fooling myself that I want any part of it.

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munchler Oct 13

I understand that the author doesn’t want to get caught up in the details of any particular online drama, but without more concrete information (about either Bluesky or their own project), I find this too abstract to be insightful. YMMV, of course.

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oddevan Oct 13

That's fair! I'd give more details about Smolblog <https://smolblog.com/> if the project was anywhere approaching "done".

Smolblog

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tptacek

But it's really not even clear in this post what you're reacting to. What's the pressure you're trying to address? What does it mean to be a "landlord" here? What are you doing instead?