I hope this won’t need to be discussed, however

I really don’t think we should ditch a service ran by a non profit just because they generally refuse to moderate based on off-site behavior (and especially based on screenshots).

Or based on one sentence from a single moderator replying to a thread consisting mostly of various forms of “so you’re intentionally letting abusive users be on the platform?”

I am not exaggerating with the previous paragraph, I will not elaborate on where this happened, but if it’s about you just calm down and think how it sounds. You won’t get anywhere by starting a conversation with accusations and an assumption of bad faith, people will just get defensive and/or stop listening to you.

Running a public service means you get a lot of moderation reports, and handling them well is really hard, time consuming, and sometimes soul-crushing. You often can’t make perfect decisions, just tradeoffs.
A factor in making those decision is avoiding moderator burnout, something which commercial platforms often don’t bother with and instead solve by churning through desperate contract workers and leaving them with lifelong PTSD after. You can imagine why this doesn’t work for volunteer-run projects.

TL;DR: please let’s not burn down a volunteer run platform for not being perfect especially when they’re really trying to do well and the alternatives literally have CEOs bootlicking nazis

@lunareclipse this is about bluesky right

@shroomie no, bluesky is a corporation, very much not volunteer ran.

And they don’t get points for trying to do things right when they casually let nazis on the platform (see the official verified US ICE account as an example).

@lunareclipse New rule for people that do this: you must immediately delete your account on the BAD platform and set up your own public service and moderate it according to your own ideals.

@lunareclipse okay cool i just. don’t really know how bluesky moderation actually works nor do i really know what’s happened with the whole ice thing

@shroomie ICE is basically US gestapo except that they’re putting immigrants into concentration camps instead of Jews this time

@lunareclipse oh no i know what’s up with ice i just don’t know what’s up with ice on bluesky lol, sorry

@shroomie other than that the moderation there is largely ran by bluesky the company, you can technically subscribe to community ran labellers though

@lunareclipse I feel like this could be a subtoot of my Moderation style and even knowing it isn't, thank you.