Nick Brumfield: Tbh, this feels like it's just a formalization of the petty tyrant problem we've already seen on Mastodon and to an increasing extent here

Tbh, this feels like it's just a formalization of the petty tyrant problem we've already seen on Mastodon and to an increasing extent here

Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online. Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Blueskybsky.social Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re op...

Social media companies don't want to wrestle with 2 things 1) A well-moderated network is going to require political decisions that piss some people off 2) A well-moderated network is going to require labor and money Outsourcing those ?s to 3rd parties just makes things murky & unaccountable

Can’t users moderate themselves?

*ourselves? Can’t we moderate ourselves?

There are certainly models, Reddit and Wikipedia probably being the best ones, but frankly that sounds tiresome and rife with issues. I come to a microblogging site to post and see posts, not decipher arcane personal beefs btwn the Blocklist Empire & the Muter Confederacy

Not the empire and confederacy 🙃🤣 So you’re down for a shit show that you get to curate? Is ozone a bad thing? Will it even change anything?

Depends on a few things. If it's mainly used as a tool by certain communities to protect themselves from harassment, I think it could work. But if it's used as a substitute for investing in a T&S infrastructure to where unaccountable volunteer mods wield a lot of power, yeah I think it'll be bad.

I'd like to respond with something witty. But I have nothing. So, "No."

Yeah I do not expect this to work well for most people

Apart from anything else, this kind of thing seems to assume users have more time and tech skill than many of us want to use on this kind of platform.

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