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kettlecorn ◴[] No.42150525[source]
The competitive advantage to BlueSky, over Twitter / X, is that there's tremendous value in connecting intelligent and kind people while maintaining a certain quality standard.

Twitter / X, for political reasons, allowed extremely toxic behavior while at the same time disempowered communities from moderating themselves. If you force each individual user to manually block every troll, bot, or disgusting person it's a losing battle and low quality speech will overwhelm conversations. X folks know that but did it anyways.

It's also becoming more and more clear that we need a relatively neutral medium for free speech. Musk claimed to be building that on X but then did exactly the opposite. It's very hard to trust the algorithm isn't being manipulated in one way or another.

On BlueSky it's incredible how much value is already being produced by connecting intelligent and creative folks as compared to what Twitter became.

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1. WaltPurvis ◴[] No.42152409[source]
How does moderation work on Bluesky? If it's not up to individual users to manually block every troll, bot, or disgusting person, who/what is doing that blocking?
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2. Scion9066 ◴[] No.42152986[source]
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/blueskys-moderation-architecture

You can either rely on Bluesky's standard labeler only or subscribe to ones that handle certain niches or the higher standards of moderation that you may want.

There's also lists made by other users that you can use to just block all the trolls/bots/etc on them at once (and as more are added).

3. kettlecorn ◴[] No.42153014[source]
In addition to what the other comment said BlueSky is also so hackable that I think people will continue develop more sophisticated techniques to better moderate.

X was locked down in a way that seemed to be giving the bots and trolls a significant advantage.