Wrote about content moderation questions, the "nazi bar" problem, impossible tradeoffs, & why I'm still kinda optimistic about how Bluesky/AT Protocol moderation could work: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/04/on-social-media-nazi-bars-tradeoffs-and-the-impossibility-of-content-moderation-at-scale/

Wouldn’t decentralized also mean barriers to it being a centralized civic town square and wld minimize its influence? Twitter served to break news, galvanize broad support for social movements, emergency response, enabled learning from SME outside your field. I used twitter for all those things.

Thanks for this, it's pretty much exactly what I hope will happen with ATP/Bluesky and it'll be good to have something to link to

Great piece

"I’ve also seen some people claim (falsely) that Bluesky would refuse to remove Nazis based on this" Are you sure? Have they said this? Just going off the CGs https://bsky.app/support/community-guidelines Harassment and slurs are out, but it does seem that hate speech (like nudity) is just labeled?

Mike, check out https://about.iftas.orghttps://www.lassomoderation.com The notion that federated moderation is central to federated social media is getting traction; thus the appearance of nonprofits (as in IFTAS) and startups (as Lasso appears to be), to do tooling & community.

how the f did people think u were calling best the nazi mike what the

This is an excellent piece. You brought a lot of clarity to a complex issue and I could not agree more with the hope decentralization offers for this issue.

Good stuff. Thanks .

“On the most extreme calls, the ones where there are legal requirements, such as child sexual abuse material and copyright infringement, for example, those can be removed at the protocol level.” Is there an explanation of how this would be done?

I really like your article.