Just in case there was any doubt about how Jack Dorsey really feels about Bluesky, the former Twitter CEO has offered new details on why he left the board and deleted his account.
I hope he realizes that having moderation isn’t a choice social media websites get to make anymore. That’s Apple and Google’s choice now. Why? Because in order to have literally any userbase at all nowadays, you have to have an app. Websites barely get used in comparison to phone apps. And if you don’t bother moderating your website and let people send things like racial slurs and child porn unabated, you get kicked off the app stores by Apple and Google. Not to mention that payment companies don’t like those things either.
I don’t know if he’s been taken out of context, but bluesky is supposed to have opt-out moderation, and the ability to opt-in to multiple moderation servers (a little like adlists in ublock et al), which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, but it sounds like they’ve gone further and completely removed stuff, because in reality it isn’t decentralised at all.
One of the things he takes offence about is that Bluesy has moderation.
He should know that moderation is needed to be useable by nearly anyone.
Yea… no moderation would mean flooding of ads, spam, porn, child porn, etc.
I think it’s dumb af for someone like him to removed about moderation.
Example:
https://kbin.social/m/opensource
Versus
https://sh.itjust.works/c/opensource@kbin.social
I hope he realizes that having moderation isn’t a choice social media websites get to make anymore. That’s Apple and Google’s choice now. Why? Because in order to have literally any userbase at all nowadays, you have to have an app. Websites barely get used in comparison to phone apps. And if you don’t bother moderating your website and let people send things like racial slurs and child porn unabated, you get kicked off the app stores by Apple and Google. Not to mention that payment companies don’t like those things either.
I don’t know if he’s been taken out of context, but bluesky is supposed to have opt-out moderation, and the ability to opt-in to multiple moderation servers (a little like adlists in ublock et al), which doesn’t seem like a terrible idea, but it sounds like they’ve gone further and completely removed stuff, because in reality it isn’t decentralised at all.
Having the ability to opt out of moderation sounds very dangerous.
As a member of some unmod groups back in the early internet I can’t but concur
It can be safely done with very small, or very cool, groups of folks, but not on the open internet.
you can’t opt out of bsky’s own moderation if you want to use bluesky pbllc’s infrastructure