Bluesky Won't Save Us
Katherine Alejandra Cross,
Liberal Currents,
Jan 06, 2025
This is a good article that takes an opinionated look at what might be called the inherent contradiction in distributed social media. It's this: "The problem with 'Power to the Users' as an ethos is that there are simply some things that users can't do. Foremost among them is content moderation at the scale of millions of users." You get "versions of Stormfront or Gab that no one can do anything about." The thing is, if the platform is owned and run by a large corporation, as Bluesky is, then there is the expectation that the owners can do something about the offensive and potentially dangerous content. It's a sort of centralized decentralization, and turns the owner into a sort of global Supreme Court - something I don't think Bluesky wants to be. Via Laurens Hof.
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