[s1gnp0st]

It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc.

This is probably good, too. I personally don't want my hand held, but recognize that others justifiably want someone else to filter out gore, or even opinions they find sufficiently off-putting.

I don't want to ram particular content down anyone else's throat, but I'm 100% opposed to anyone making that decision for me.

[wmf]

My understanding is that relays will not filter anything except really illegal material (child porn). Moderation is based on labeling, not deleting.

[gpm]

Unless they want to provide free file storage to the world... surely they must delete spam.

[layer8]

Is it possible for a relay to filter individual posts, or do the Merkle trees prevent that? (They would if they need to be signed by the originating user.)

[PathfinderBot]

I'm part of a marginalised group that is often considered to be illegal in many countries, or at the very least, very off-putting. (In 50 years, perhaps, things will change and we will be more accepted. To be specific, it's a grey area in the U.S.)

I'm interested in BlueSky but the relays are a worrying "point of failure" if they can just block me from there. I'll be more interested if there are multiple relays that I can use in parallel, with at least one being friendly to us, so I can still participate. Currently on the Fediverse it mostly works since we can connect directly to other servers, and there's no SPOF. But I would love to use BlueSky due to the better protocol design! Just more relays would be good.

... Wait, can we self host relays? And is it plausible for a community to do that? I couldn't find anything about it.

[wmf]

You can host your own relay but if you want accurate likes/replies/etc you need to crawl the entire Bluesky which could be quite expensive in the future.