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how did you get from "look at how shitty #bluesky's #moderation is" to "anyway, #mastodon's moderation sucks"
moderation always sucks. it's a shit job. it's contentious. there's tons of grey areas
but it's necessary
and yes, mastodon's moderation sucks in many ways
and yet, bluesky's tech bro hand waving: "farm it out with no money involved, i hate moderation" is far worse
it's not freedom. it's "i don't want to deal with it"
terrible motivations result in terrible reality
@benroyce @skeptiker @bjo the biggest difference is that fediverse moderation sucks as a consequence of a decentralized system, you cannot both have the people own the town square and have the bad people not allowed on the town square, the people need to kick them out themselves, it's a natural consequence of the way fediverse is structured and one of the downsides of that approach; meanwhile, bluesky moderation sucks intentionally, because despite having total control over the centralized network they choose to not actively moderate it to save a penny while hiding behind the non existent decentralization, the head of trust and safety at bluesky just openly said they feed the data into an ai and don't babysit it
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