Andrew Wickliffe
Andrew Wickliffe

@andrew@theamityville.social

Soup tonight, coffee and sinkers in the morning.

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February 11, 2023

“Bluesky could be the future of content moderation”.

I 100% disagree.

Yes, the protocol offers a plethora of ways to filter content and ensure you never come across, say, Nazis.

But that’s not what content moderation is. Content moderation is making decisions. It is either welcoming or refusing certain types of content on your platform.

If you’re letting everyone in, and telling your users "but you have control!", you’re not moderating anything. You’re just quitting.

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Attached: 1 image Now that Bluesky is open to the public, I hope developers and publishers give it a second look. It has a lot of good ideas about the future of social networking: https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-public-opening-jay-graber/

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