[threeseed]

> because of that they are tricking a lot of people into using them

This may come as a surprise.

But your average cool, interesting person doesn't care whether Bluesky has a decentralised protocol or the intricacies of its identity model.

The reason most people are using it is because it's the closest thing to a Musk-less Twitter.

[mjfl]

Which is funny because this demographic values blocking, banning, and censorship very highly while these are exactly the sort of things Nostr and Bluesky are designed to prevent.

[capableweb]

Bluesky at least is not design to prevent "blocking, banning, and censorship" at all, not sure where you get that idea from.

Blocking/moderation/"censorship" will happen from people's own actions, or subscribing to someone else's actions. If you want, you can just not participate in blocking/moderation at all and have a raw view, but most people will probably opt-in to a moderated view, as the internet is usually (not always) viewed with a moderated perspective.

[mjfl]

Huh? But blocking someone on a distributed protocol seems impossible? to block someone, or censor them, you would have to get every node in the network to cooperate. Sure you can “mute” someone and not see their posts personally pretty easily. But if you want to make it so that others can’t see someone’s posts, like Alex Jones or Trump, and generally block the public from seeing them, this action seems much harder.

[capableweb]

Yeah, if what you want is to prevent others from seeing other-others content, you're gonna have a hard time implementing that in a decentralized/distributed protocol, just as you say.

You basically have to chose between that or allowing the platform to censor anyone, which these "new breeds" of social networks seems to make the choice of doing "personal blocking" rather than "network wide" blocking.

What I think most people want though, is not "blocking" in terms of "no one will be able to see this person" but "blocking" in terms of "I don't want them to be able to interact with me, nor do I want to see their content".

[_x2o9]

Irony is lost on these authoritarians who are anti-free speech.

[mjfl]

Totally, see the other reply thread - not even the engineers building it seem to understand the irony.

[Gigachad]

I pressed a button on Twitter to not show me anything from musk. Now it’s a muskless twitter. Meanwhile I’ve heard that alternatives like mastodon have half the user base taking about musk. That’s much harder to block.

[ciwolsey]

And of course nobody on Twitter is talking about Musk.

[thinkingemote]

Indeed, a few more button presses are needed to type "musk" and "Elon" in the mute words setting. Most users don't use or know about this function.

It's an optional thing to disengage from the hype but but not really obvious for normal users.

[manojlds]

Or posting screenshots of stuff he does etc etc.

[m-p-3]

you can apply filter on Mastodon, not only on tags but on words themselves. simply filter "Musk" to have a Musk-free Mastodon experience.

[fiatjaf]

This is wrong:

1. even average people do appreciate the fact that the thing is an open protocol, even if they do not comment about it or understand it or seem to care.

2. average people do follow some leaders when deciding where to move, and the leaders are people that mostly care about these things -- these are the ones being tricked.