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Bluesky has moderation lists that anyone can make and you can subscribe to them to choose what content you don’t want to see. It also gives you fine-grained control over the “default” moderation, allowing you to individually choose if you want to block nudity, threats, misinformation, spam, intolerance, etc.

Except you can’t move your posts. Or, really, anything other than followers.

AFAICT it’s not open source, just open weights.

This is why we need social networks where you can choose your moderation independently of your instance. And Mastodon is not that. I’m not sure if Bluesky is.

You mean the alternative where a random person decides what people you’re allowed to interact with?

You say that as if any Mastodon instance was guaranteed to last several years.

I find this weird. If someone were to send your private information to someone via physical post, is the post company responsible for that too?

Me losing my devices is much higher on my threat model than someone trying to brute-force my Bitwarden password.

I don’t think it should be run for free, but I think it’s wrong of them to erase compeition by offering a free service and than suddenly make it not free.

Search engine crawlers generally respect robots.txt, so if you add a robots.txt entry to disallow all crawlers from getting into the maze, effectively only AI crawlers will go there.

So it won’t crawl any actual content on that site? Goal achieved.

Well, at least you’re honest about being against free speech.

Nobody is born a Muslim either, yet pointing out the hatefulness of Islam is considered racism.

That’s not what the distinction is about. The important thing is whether you want to shut them down because of what opinion they’re expressing, or how they’re expressing it.

Nobody is forcing you to read anyone’s comments on Facebook.

If they’re disturbing you from working, that’s an issue independent from the message they’re expressing, so freedom of expression does not apply.

They do not curate the content that’s posted there. Just because someone wrote something on Facebook does not mean Facebook endorses their opinion, just like sending someone an e-mail does not mean that your e-mail host endorses whatever you sent.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. —Noam Chomsky

No, that’s not what “censorship” means.

You have it backward. Censorship is what creates echo chambers.