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No Ads. 100% user-centric moderation controls. Blockity block! Block lists are a godsend. This is what made Dorsey quit the board and abandon the platform. He
by ChicagoDave 2y ago
No Ads.
100% user-centric moderation controls. Blockity block! Block lists are a godsend. This is what made Dorsey quit the board and abandon the platform. He actually believed the masses wanted a libertarian platform that forced you to listen to assholes. We don’t.
No opaque algorithms controlling your timeline.
Feeds to create topic centric timelines.
Decentralized. You can host your own data. Other hosts can offer refuge if Bluesky went rogue. Bluesky doesn’t own the data.
Many independent journalists have moved over so we’re getting significantly better news and not the false equivalence nonsense peddled by most of the major media outlets.
And kittens, birds, dogs, deer, raccoons, and other heartwarming animal posts.
- FreeTrade 2y agoMuting is fine, blocking is censorship. You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)
- ChicagoDave 2y agoThe users are doing the blocking, not Bluesky. We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists. It’s my individual right to avoid assholes. Not censorship.
- FreeTrade 2y agoThat's what your mute is for. 100% support that. Bluesky preventing users from replying to your posts on your say-so. Yup, there's a word for that.
- ChicagoDave 2y agoYeah, it’s called harassment.
- paulgb 2y agoYou already could have a client that treats a block as a mute. Easier to just open an incognito tab though. > In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and client. https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation
- ChicagoDave 2y agoI’d argue this one feature is the core reason Bluesky has 30 million users.
- FreeTrade 2y agoThere is no doubt censorship is popular. It's not for me though.
- FreeTrade 2y agoFrom that document - >creation of reply posts, quote posts, embeds, and mentions are blocked; This is the unmitigable censorship that can't be removed without decentralization.
- glowiefedposter 2y ago[flagged]
- ChicagoDave 2y agoYes!
- ggddv 2y agoThe thing correct information doesn’t change so it will feel like an echo chamber to people who have been taught being sold a new idea each week is the same as “challenging yourself.”
- ChicagoDave 2y agoA slight bend on, “There is no such thing as an alternate fact.” Something that seems to confound assholes.
- interweb_tube 2y agoThe other key feature there has been proactive platform moderation -- truly bad actors have been banned early & you can block a whole list of bad-faith accounts at once. AT proto seems like it would be perfect for a wikipedia-style fact check organization.
- cmxch 2y agoBut who will believe a group that can’t take the heat?