The question of whether to boot Singal is one of what will be an increasingly large number of decisions that Bluesky as an organization really does not want to make. It's important to remember that Bluesky was created with an ethos directly opposed to central authority making these decisions. - ThreadSky

josephseering.bsky.social • 80 days ago

The question of whether to boot Singal is one of what will be an increasingly large number of decisions that Bluesky as an organization really does not want to make. It's important to remember that Bluesky was created with an ethos directly opposed to central authority making these decisions.

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Moderation decisions draw intense public scrutiny from many places. That’s why Bluesky's architecture is designed to enable communities to control their online spaces, independent of the company or its leadership. We will continue to work on empowering people with more control over their experience.

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josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

Bluesky's leadership has adapted very well to users' demands for more proactive T&S involvement, and I have to give them credit for that. They learned much faster than most other platform leadership teams in the past. The reluctance is still there though, as evidenced by this quoted post.

josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

The core premise of Bluesky, as embodied in its design, was that users should be in control of what they see. This was in some sense supposed to substitute for having a central authority making decisions about what to allow and what not to allow.

josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

As a researcher of moderation tooling, I think Bluesky is doing some pretty great stuff, but I'm not especially bullish on this ethos of decentralization, at least in the way it has manifested here.

josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

I empathize with the desire to pass on the responsibility of making these decisions to users. T&S is impossible even when you're well-resourced, and you're almost never well-resourced. Unfortunately, this core idea of delegating T&S power to users can only go so far.

josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

(And I say this having studied community moderation for almost a decade, and having great respect for the volunteers who moderate communities. They're a much more important piece of the broader T&S puzzle than they often get credit for, but they cannot be the only piece.)

josephseering.bsky.social•80 days ago

As it turns out, users don't see filters as a direct substitute for centralized T&S actions. They still care if offensive/problematic content exists on the site, even if they personally never see that content. There's lots of good reasons for this. I support this feeling. They _should_ care.

m00psy.bsky.social•80 days ago

he’s violated the TOS. they should—and have every right to—show him the door.

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