Bluesky is facing increased pressure to crack down on hateful and violent rhetoric, even though robust moderation conflicts with its decentralized goals.
created a custom algorithm for Black users called Blacksky, said it was unfortunate that Bluesky tried to offer custom algorithms as a “solution” to the moderation debate
That’s a very interesting approach, but in my opinion if a user is being repeatedly rude towards a particular race, it’s unlikely they’ll be encouraging positive discussion elsewhere on the platform. Why keep them around and use an algorithm to make their account look like a clean slate to some users?
The ACLU, for example, can label certain accounts and posts as “hate-speech.” Other users will be able to subscribe to the ACLU’s content filter to mute content.
This is also really interesting, my only concern here personally is the amount of manpower required for this to be effective, especially when the platform gains a lot of users, and whether that manpower is being compensated in some way, seeing as bluesky is a for-profit (public benefit?) company
This reminds me of the killer feature of Google+ - Circles. The abilities to trivially share “follow lists.” Adding Blocklist sharing to it makes perfect sense. Both of these are features Mastodon might want to implement.
That’s a very interesting approach, but in my opinion if a user is being repeatedly rude towards a particular race, it’s unlikely they’ll be encouraging positive discussion elsewhere on the platform. Why keep them around and use an algorithm to make their account look like a clean slate to some users?
This is also really interesting, my only concern here personally is the amount of manpower required for this to be effective, especially when the platform gains a lot of users, and whether that manpower is being compensated in some way, seeing as bluesky is a for-profit (public benefit?) company
This reminds me of the killer feature of Google+ - Circles. The abilities to trivially share “follow lists.” Adding Blocklist sharing to it makes perfect sense. Both of these are features Mastodon might want to implement.