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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 04:59:59 You may have heard VP JD Vance is now on #Bluesky "We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky," the company said. Would like to point out this is a fundamental weakness of a centralized US corporate platform. The company has no practical option but to 'welcome' VP Vance. In a truly decentralized network, individual instances have options on how to deal with such a situation. With Bluesky it's an all or nothing proposition. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 05:03:58 @mastodonmigration A very good point that had not occurred to me. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 05:36:13 @mastodonmigration BlueSky users will block him in very large numbers, that is how they deal with toxic people there. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 05:59:30 Yes, but that is an individual option, and therefore limited. There is no mechanism for organizing collective action and the associated pressure instance wide policy decisions bring to bear on the networked community. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 07:38:20 @mastodonmigration Sure there is. There are shared block lists you can sign up for or contribute to. There are specific lists of MAGA accounts to block, for example. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 08:56:39 Good point about sharing block lists, however that is still a very different, and less effective, a mechanism than whole instances exercising moderation for their users. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 09:17:17 True, but the cleft asshole still has a platform to beligerantly spew his shit onto. All who do not actively avoid him are therefore subject to his propaganda and hate speech. This is the pattern cable news networks symbiotically form with media platforms like Fox. There is no opt out of the package, Shure you can go into your TV settings and "block" that channel.... But the system is designed with this type of exploitation as the default, attribution of intent hardly matters after the fact. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 05:37:16 @mastodonmigration Yikes. Happy to be here in the Fediverse, tyvm. |
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Föderation EN Do 19.06.2025 10:40:13 @mastodonmigration and many of the farright will follow Vance and make #bluesky the same s***hole like #x |
