@dialecticalmusings@app.wafrn.net
2026-06-22 03:27 UTC
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social 2026-06-22 04:48
@dialecticalmusings @cwebber@social.coop @innocentzero@social.tchncs.de @ricci@discuss.systems Sorry, I'm not following. I'm not responsible for moderation of other users' content on their own instances if I'm the only user of my instance. There's no other user of my instance who would be expecting me to control what they are able to be exposed to.
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@ricci@discuss.systems 2026-06-22 03:29
@dialecticalmusings @jaredwhite@indieweb.social @cwebber@social.coop @innocentzero@social.tchncs.de > As long as the single user-owner follows users on other instances, they are still responsible for moderating every post and every boost by those users. Only if they choose to expose a public "global" feed. [edit: that is, the feed that shows everything seen by the server, not just posts made by the local user]
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@ricci@discuss.systems 2026-06-22 04:16
@dialecticalmusings @jaredwhite@indieweb.social @innocentzero@social.tchncs.de I am currently working on a moderate issue on my instance regarding a reportedly-problematic instance that uses a language I don't speak and involving cultural nuances in a different country that are completely unfamiliar to me. This is, however, quite a rare situation. Normally, I have an easy time because the kinds of moderation issues that come up are ones encountered by people I have a lot of common context with, and that we have explicitly disallowed on our instance. The atproto model described by the blog post - and specifically the Bluesky app/appview - simply cannot have this moderation context. If they have someone join who is hated/feared by trans users for the harm done by their rhetoric - toeing the ToS line but being careful not to cross it - then they "have" to allow that user on. I do not. I can deny them an account on my instance, block their account, block the instance they are on if it is a source of harassment for my users, etc. I am accountable to my users, I owe nothing to them.