Twilight of the Mods
for Bluesky has confirmed that they’ve been in touch to express their grave concerns about the N-word scandal.), with most day-to-day curation and moderation of the site dictated by the preferences of users, seems to be a paragon of decentralization—an open source mentality that promises to finally empower users. In practice, however, this latest incident is just another reminder that the ultimate goal seems to be minimal central moderation of even the most obvious exploits of a platform.
. However, unlike in their thread, Bluesky admitted a “mistake” occurred. The company added that an “incident report to increase transparency and accountability” is in the making and will be published soon. If this is true, it could represent a small step forward in restoring trust with a user base that, for now, is disproportionately made up of marginalized communities badly burned by the failures of moderation on large platforms. But skepticism is warranted. What Bluesky corporate has presented up to this point is communication that could have been generated by ChatGPT—the vague, anodyne language in its vanishingly rare public statements on the matter verge on the embarrassing.
Among the most important changes that the site’s most prolific users and protesters have clamored for are the expansion of Bluesky’s Trust and Safety Team. I asked for more specific, concrete information about theirT&S team, and what they hoped to expand it into.
as “a bit like resolving all disputes at the level of the Supreme Court.” There’s a certain inborn suspicion of centralized moderation here, with a clear desire to slough off as much as possible to the end users. Bluesky’s reply to my questions, meanwhile, saw a little more nuance added: “We have opinionated rules detailed in our community guidelines,” they wrote, “which includes prohibiting race, sexual, gender and gender-identity based harassment and more.
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