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So... "federation" without control? What's the point?
They stress that a difference between their federation and ActivityPub is that on ActivityPub "your “instance”, or server, determines your community, so your experience depends on which server you join" while for them "On Bluesky, your experience is based on what feeds and accounts you follow, and you can always participate in the global conversation (e.g. breaking news, viral posts, and algorithmic feeds)." and "Moderation on Bluesky is not tied to your server, like it is on Mastodon. Defederation, a way of addressing moderation issues in Mastodon by disconnecting servers, is not as relevant on Bluesky because there are other layers to the system."
The big difference is that I can't choose an instance that blocks/does not interact with the servers loaded with Nazis, terrorists, and/or child abusers? Why the hell is it of such paramount importance to Jack Dorsey that the rest of us are forced to interact with Nazis?
Tbf from the short time I've been on bluesky it seems like their algorithms are very good, I have followed the people I'm interested in and seen 0 nazi posts so far
This highlights an interesting point:
IF a platform hosts terrorism { white-supremacism, islamist supremacism, male-supremacism with its beloved domestic-violence "enforcement", communist-party machiavellianism, fascist machiavellianism, moneyarchist machiavellianism, etc. }...
and is able to hide that from the "majority"..
THEN they're doing good for the world, aren't they?
Hiding one's evils isn't what "doing good" means.
Not enforcing evil, is what doing good means.
Humankind'll walk, willingly, into its own slaughterhouse, for sake of the lollipops humankind's fed by the manipulators of the world.
That has been going-on for centuries.
Nothing's magically changing, surprise, surprise.
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Not sure what you're trying to say either, but fascist speech using lies is fascist recruitment. That is why autonomous anti-fascism is right to disrupt fascist recruitment events in universities. Because the state or moderates care more about maintaining order. So you have to disrupt the recruiting by any means.
So if your argument is that "sunlight is the best disinfectant" then no, it definitely isn't. There is historical evidence.