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Oh, I can post anywhere. I'm in my 50's, and I know that alt clients can get around it, but that doesn't change the fact that the service itself chose to "Papers Please" RLID its users when there wasn't even political pressure to do it at the time in most of the places it operates. If it had changed to be trans and islamiaphobes then I am glad to be off there.
It hasn't. Or the block lists I'm using are fucking amazing.
From what I gather, the admins could be stepping in more like they do on Lemmy for hateful behaviors/users. If BlueSky were more federated like Lemmy, I think they would have been defederated by now for not taking direct action.
The block lists themselves work great imo and should be used universally on the Fediverse, but people do have understandable gripes with admins there for not stepping in more and are instead differing moderation to the user level tools in place.
and this is the biggest issue I have with most lemmy instances, over defederation over nothing but mean words
Words alone aren’t really what I’m alluding to here, more so authoritarian labels. One case which caused a decent amount of friction on BlueSky was that someone was allowed on the platform that was making harassment style content about other BlueSky users, but they shared the content off of the platform.
If it was built like Lemmy, then instances could pressure each other to be more selective for who they allow on the platform.
Often mean words aren’t the core problem, but toxic individuals or people/bots with ulterior motives on a platform. Not everyone should have the privilege of being part of a community if they can’t be decent.