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@jwz Why? What is wrong with the Open-Source, decentralised and federated AT Protocol (atproto.com) that BlueSky operates on?

It's functionally the same as Mastodon but with superior (and optional) content discovery and feed algorithms!

7 February at 3:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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@peoplearecute @jwz Aside from the fact that (last I checked) you cannot currently clone a github and run a functional bsky server yourself, the team heading the project do not care about established trust & safety principles and will not listen to the advice of experienced T&S workers. Especially when it conflicts with things deemed sacrosanct in their protocol, IE public blocklists.

7 February at 4:32 | Open on hachyderm.io
Ceremus

@peoplearecute @jwz
They have not hired a head of T&S, they may not EVER hire one, because anyone working at that level with knowledge of protecting their users would tell them what goddamn awful idea it would be to delegate individual moderating decisions to a public block and mute list.

7 February at 4:32 | Open on hachyderm.io
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@ceremus @jwz

According to their paper (arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239) personal servers are in the pipeline and planned for integration in 2024.

The public blocklists are an interesting part, they say it is a requirement since censoring posts from blocked accounts in one's feed is done on the client side and they need to have something accessible to read from. How does @Mastodon handle it?
7 February at 4:54 | Open on mastodon.social
Ceremus

@peoplearecute I couldn't say offhand, I'm not a Mastodon dev nor instance owner, although I'm reasonably certain a Mastodon account's blocked user list isn't publicly available through the API or others would have brought that up.

If you'd like to read further on what bsky's team is doing and why their refusal to do T&S will likely end up hurting people, I recommend reading Denise's thread (scroll up to read in full). bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.
She's been working in T&S since before twtr & FB.

@peoplearecute I couldn't say offhand, I'm not a Mastodon dev nor instance owner, although I'm reasonably certain a Mastodon account's blocked user list isn't publicly available through the API or others would have brought that up.

If you'd like to read further on what bsky's team is doing and why their refusal to do T&S will likely end up hurting people, I recommend reading Denise's thread (scroll up to read in full). bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.
She's been working...

7 February at 5:14 | Open on hachyderm.io
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@peoplearecute @jwz ActivityPub does have the advantage though, despite the apparent advantages of AT, of actually existing. (This is ignoring the fact BlueSky doesn't support AT federation, and instead taking at face value that they will one day.)

7 February at 16:37 | Open on forum.virctuary.com
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