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Forgive my naïveté but isn’t bluesky open source and decentralized? So wouldn’t say some group just spin up an instance without these restrictions?

jazzyjackson 3y ago
Yes, but they're currently prefederation (can't run your own instance yet) and still making architectural decisions about how moderation will work. they're balancing onboarding new users with keeping up with high expectations of their current userbase. I'm not sure how the federation story compares with mastadon, I've mostly heard talk of composite block lists (everyone you block is public on bluesky so you could have rules that say block everyone that x,y,z have blocked, minus people I follow)
- msla 3y ago
  > Yes, but they're currently prefederation (can't run your own instance yet) What's stopping you?
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  - KoftaBob 3y ago
    You actually can now, but it's still in "sandbox" stage. https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox
    - msla 3y ago
      So you could take their code, tell them to screw off, and run your own instances independently of them?
      - KoftaBob 3y ago
        Yes, but since they’re by far the largest instance right now and would prob degenerate with you, you’d need to be cool with the fact that only people on your instance and some small other ones would be able to see your posts.
fundad 3y ago
If you want to use the words that badly, then yes.
KoftaBob 3y ago
Pretty much. To clarify, Bluesky is a client that uses the AT Protocol. The instance that Bluesky the client uses is bsky.app, but anyone can create their own instance that doesn't refer to this slur list when someone creates an account. What'll happen though is that the bsky.app instance (which is the largest one and basically the flagship right now) will probably de-federate with instances that have usernames that include those slurs.

jazzyjackson 3y ago

Yes, but they're currently prefederation (can't run your own instance yet) and still making architectural decisions about how moderation will work. they're balancing onboarding new users with keeping up with high expectations of their current userbase. I'm not sure how the federation story compares with mastadon, I've mostly heard talk of composite block lists (everyone you block is public on bluesky so you could have rules that say block everyone that x,y,z have blocked, minus people I follow)

msla 3y ago
> Yes, but they're currently prefederation (can't run your own instance yet) What's stopping you?
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- KoftaBob 3y ago
  You actually can now, but it's still in "sandbox" stage. https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox https://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox
  - msla 3y ago
    So you could take their code, tell them to screw off, and run your own instances independently of them?
    - KoftaBob 3y ago
      Yes, but since they’re by far the largest instance right now and would prob degenerate with you, you’d need to be cool with the fact that only people on your instance and some small other ones would be able to see your posts.

fundad 3y ago

If you want to use the words that badly, then yes.

KoftaBob 3y ago

Pretty much. To clarify, Bluesky is a client that uses the AT Protocol. The instance that Bluesky the client uses is bsky.app, but anyone can create their own instance that doesn't refer to this slur list when someone creates an account. What'll happen though is that the bsky.app instance (which is the largest one and basically the flagship right now) will probably de-federate with instances that have usernames that include those slurs.