Cross posting cos this is 100% going to be a problem here 

https://elk.zone/cosocial.ca/@timbray/110448162737803422

Software Engineer. ex-SRE. 

Lover of great Coffee. Mountain Bike Enthusiast. Island Dweller. 

Highly crypto-skeptic. AI-bullish.

“Moderation angst outburst over at #BlueSky - the team is protocol people, not Trust&Safety people, so they're struggling a bit. The degree to which the world has started to understand the centrality of T&S is surprising and good.”

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

The strategy @dwr.eth points to wrt this (probably constellation of difficult forces) is a rich multi-client ecosystem around the protocol.

Individual trust/safety/moderation approaches surface within each client's design.  Messy [but/and] free.

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil →  phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  
ƒ(🌳) →  🧫 /sys  ←  @cell <T> 🧠🐦‍⬛, 100% human cartoon

> "tho then you just recreated mastodon"

Yes! And that's the problem.

If they are aiming for 1B DAU then they’ve just lost (almost) everyone who’s not a cis white (cryptobro) dude. Which cuts the audience down a LOT. Gotta be at the node or protocol level I think. Defederation, server-wide block lists - tho then you just recreated mastodon