Bluesky starts letting users pick their own moderation filters

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098920/bluesky-custom-moderation-filters-ozone

by itherseed • 2 years ago

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theverge.com

wmf• 2 years ago

Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39684027

dang• 2 years ago

Comments moved thither. Thanks!

jevoten3• 2 years ago

Title is misleading - users can pick additional filters, but can't opt out of any of Bluesky's own censorship without going to a third-party server entirely.

pfraze2• 2 years ago

No, other clients -- including forks of our open source client -- can opt out of our censorship (if we're really going to call it that). I mention infrastructure takedowns in my other comment. If we ever cross the line on that layer, you can run your own infra, which again is open-source.

jevoten3• 2 years ago

Thank you for the clarification.

our censorship (if we're really going to call it that)

With the possible exception of spam filtering, yes, we should call it that. I'm sure I would agree with many of those censorship decisions, such as e.g. YCombinators decision to censor things harming intellectual curiosity, but just because we agree with some censorship, doesn't make it not censorship. It's important to keep language free of little lies like using milder terms when we want to present something in a better light, because these little lies add up and become habits of both speech and thought.

Bluesky starts letting users pick their own moderation filters

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