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It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc. This is probably good, too. I personally don't w

It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc. This is probably good, too. I personally don't want my hand held, but recognize that others justifiably want someone else to filter out gore, or even opinions they find sufficiently off-putting. I don't want to ram particular content down anyone else's throat, but I'm 100% opposed to anyone making that decision for me.

wmf 3y ago
My understanding is that relays will not filter anything except really illegal material (child porn). Moderation is based on labeling, not deleting.
- layer8 3y ago
  Is it possible for a relay to filter individual posts, or do the Merkle trees prevent that? (They would if they need to be signed by the originating user.)
- gpm 3y ago
  Unless they want to provide free file storage to the world... surely they must delete spam.
- PathfinderBot 3y ago
  I'm part of a marginalised group that is often considered to be illegal in many countries, or at the very least, very off-putting. (In 50 years, perhaps, things will change and we will be more accepted. To be specific, it's a grey area in the U.S.) I'm interested in BlueSky but the relays are a worrying "point of failure" if they can just block me from there. I'll be more interested if there are multiple relays that I can use in parallel, with at least one being friendly to us, so I can still participate. Currently on the Fediverse it mostly works since we can connect directly to other servers, and there's no SPOF. But I would love to use BlueSky due to the better protocol design! Just more relays would be good. ... Wait, can we self host relays? And is it plausible for a community to do that? I couldn't find anything about it.
  - wmf 3y ago
    You can host your own relay but if you want accurate likes/replies/etc you need to crawl the entire Bluesky which could be quite expensive in the future.

wmf 3y ago

My understanding is that relays will not filter anything except really illegal material (child porn). Moderation is based on labeling, not deleting.

layer8 3y ago
Is it possible for a relay to filter individual posts, or do the Merkle trees prevent that? (They would if they need to be signed by the originating user.)
gpm 3y ago
Unless they want to provide free file storage to the world... surely they must delete spam.
PathfinderBot 3y ago
I'm part of a marginalised group that is often considered to be illegal in many countries, or at the very least, very off-putting. (In 50 years, perhaps, things will change and we will be more accepted. To be specific, it's a grey area in the U.S.) I'm interested in BlueSky but the relays are a worrying "point of failure" if they can just block me from there. I'll be more interested if there are multiple relays that I can use in parallel, with at least one being friendly to us, so I can still participate. Currently on the Fediverse it mostly works since we can connect directly to other servers, and there's no SPOF. But I would love to use BlueSky due to the better protocol design! Just more relays would be good. ... Wait, can we self host relays? And is it plausible for a community to do that? I couldn't find anything about it.
- wmf 3y ago
  You can host your own relay but if you want accurate likes/replies/etc you need to crawl the entire Bluesky which could be quite expensive in the future.