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by sergiotapia 522 days ago
bluesky and other echochambers are not the solution to censorship. bluesky is the left to the x right. both serving different masters.

The solution is true mesh network with financial incentive to "host" the content. Imagine kinda of like bittorrent seeding where the longer you seed the more you "mine crypto". I'm too dumb to build such a thing, but that is the solution.

A true peer to peer network where all content is hosted and nothing can be brought down. you locally choose to "hide politics", "hide porn", "hide violence" and that's it.

the web as it was intended, free information.

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>bluesky is the left to the x right

you've given the left pov, but it's not accurate.

twitter was neutral, then twitter "went left" by censoring the right.

then musk bought twitter (renamed it X) and stopped censoring the right but did not censor the left; but a certain type of left person can't tolerate the right not being censored so they left first to the fediverse and now to bluesky

X is open to all; bluesky is a population of people who are not open to all

You probably wouldn't want to host CSAM or even more abject content. Also the performance would be terrible.

The issue with unmoderated content is that it always devolves into a neonazis and other hateful/deranged groups echo chamber, and everyone else leaves because frankly who wants to engage with that? Look at 4chan for an example.

agreed of csam - but for the rest, ai on edge is so powerful now, users could filter or not filter whatever they want. there's no reason musk or dorsey should decide whats ok.