It doesn't matter, the quality of discourse is very different
What Bluesky gives all users is the choices and control at an individual level, and the ability to operate their own moderation labellers if they so choose
They have taken the controls from the corporation and given them to the people. People use these tools to remove the trolls and unproductive discourse, the fresh start means it is not a sisyphean task to keep your feed and comments cleaner
Because of the owners personal relationship with his daughter you can't say cis. The blue check replies on any big post are the racism convention. I find the environment to have gotten very unpleasant. Imagine if every flagged poster here instead got the VIP treatment.
From my limited research, most new Bluesky users are ecstatic they have regained the ability to gang-report and tattle on people they don't like again.
That I don't agree, it seems to me the BlueSky way is block and ignore. I didn't see a lot of negative engagement, and ragebait (I don't have any blocklist ATM,I want to have the full experience) seems to receive very little responses (except from idiots, but right now it's clearly not as much as twitter, pre or post-buyout).
It's more about not having to endure trolls. They can be added to list and then users can decide if they want to subscribe to these lists. We don't have to do it individually and that's a powerful tool to keep the network more respectul
What Bluesky gives all users is the choices and control at an individual level, and the ability to operate their own moderation labellers if they so choose
They have taken the controls from the corporation and given them to the people. People use these tools to remove the trolls and unproductive discourse, the fresh start means it is not a sisyphean task to keep your feed and comments cleaner
This post from Mark Cuban sums up the general vibes: https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3lbx7p3vdgs...