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The idea is that moderation will be based on who you trust. First and foremost, that is yourself, i.e. you can moderate your own timeline by choosing who to fo
by black_puppydog 6y ago
The idea is that moderation will be based on who you trust.
First and foremost, that is yourself, i.e. you can moderate your own timeline by choosing who to follow or block. Since this happens on your device, there's nobody who can interfere with this.
Further, it also means that you can trust your peers when you want. One default behaviour is that if you do NOT follow a feed A, and feeds B and C, who you do follow, each block A, your client will not by default replicate A's messages and thus you won't see them. Of course, if you unfollow B and C, or if you choose to explicitly follow A, then you'd see their content again. That's what I would understand by "close moderation" anyhow.
- andai 6y agoCensorship by osmosis?
- grey_earthling 6y agoDepends what you mean by “censorship”. It's free listening — you have the right to choose whom you listen to.
- black_puppydog 6y agoIf you follow people you don't trust to understand these mechanisms, and wield them accordingly, then maybe. But IF you understand how this works, the client will never prevent you from reading something you would want. And it's hard-if-not-impossible to prevent the client from fetching a specific feed. So in that sense, no, not censorship. It is good practice on SSB though to make a comment on why you block a feed. There are many reasons, from NSFW content to actual harassment to simply spammyness being an issue when you replicate the entire feed onto a mobile device. Of course, that practice is not enforced by technical means. But it is still quite common. And in that case you actually get a notification.