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.
The 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.
The 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.”
Muting 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)
You 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.
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.