The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?
Bluesky chased black people off the platform right at the start when they allowed racial slurs in usernames. They are currently chasing trans people off the platform by refusing to ban Jesse Singal for harrasment.
It’s not a bad concept, reducing Bluesky’s expenses and involvement, while at the same time allowing each user to “pick and choose” the moderation that they’d prefer. The downside, is that 3rd-party moderators might not be able to “ban” at a scale of over 10 million users.
(PS: somewhat ironically, Bluesky turns out to be more complex than Mastodon, since you need to subscribe to a bunch of Labelers, instead of moderation being baked into whatever instance you pick)
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Bluesky chased black people off the platform right at the start when they allowed racial slurs in usernames. They are currently chasing trans people off the platform by refusing to ban Jesse Singal for harrasment.
Bluesky seems to want users to pick 3rd-party moderators, what they call “Labelers”:
https://www.bluesky-labelers.io/
It’s not a bad concept, reducing Bluesky’s expenses and involvement, while at the same time allowing each user to “pick and choose” the moderation that they’d prefer. The downside, is that 3rd-party moderators might not be able to “ban” at a scale of over 10 million users.
(PS: somewhat ironically, Bluesky turns out to be more complex than Mastodon, since you need to subscribe to a bunch of Labelers, instead of moderation being baked into whatever instance you pick)
This dropped today: