The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?
It’s not a bad concept, reducing Bluesky’s expenses and involvement, while at the same time allowing each user to “pick and choose” the moderation that they’d prefer. The downside, is that 3rd-party moderators might not be able to “ban” at a scale of over 10 million users.
(PS: somewhat ironically, Bluesky turns out to be more complex than Mastodon, since you need to subscribe to a bunch of Labelers, instead of moderation being baked into whatever instance you pick)
Bluesky seems to want users to pick 3rd-party moderators, what they call “Labelers”:
https://www.bluesky-labelers.io/
It’s not a bad concept, reducing Bluesky’s expenses and involvement, while at the same time allowing each user to “pick and choose” the moderation that they’d prefer. The downside, is that 3rd-party moderators might not be able to “ban” at a scale of over 10 million users.
(PS: somewhat ironically, Bluesky turns out to be more complex than Mastodon, since you need to subscribe to a bunch of Labelers, instead of moderation being baked into whatever instance you pick)