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swayvil commented on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar   newpublic.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/benwerd
KingMob · 2 hours ago
I think they're saying that delegating moderation to a third-party still constitutes decentralization, since it doesn't involve Bluesky proper.
swayvil · 36 minutes ago
Ok. As I see it, the primary hazard of moderation is that control over our communication is given to a central authority.

This hazard exists whether it's a few centers or many.

Therefore any meaningful decentralization will do away with moderation.

Is this not obvious?

swayvil commented on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar   newpublic.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/benwerd
anon7000 · 3 hours ago
This is basically proof that you’re wrong: a separate entity hosts separate moderation, and anyone using a client of AT Proto (even the official app) can use this 3rd party as the moderation service for the content that they see. That’s decentralized moderation, where the user has choice over what moderation they use and what feeds they see.
swayvil · 3 hours ago
Please don't pretend to misunderstand me. It's annoying.
swayvil commented on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar   newpublic.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/benwerd
swayvil · 4 hours ago
Decentralized must necessitate abandonment of moderators.

To filter the bad stuff, to inform that algorithm, we will use a shared rating system. Rating the stuff and rating the raters too.

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swayvil commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study   kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
ymolodtsov · 10 days ago
Not really. People started having issues with teeth when we switched to farming and went from a diverse diet to a pretty poor one (grain, grain, grain).
swayvil · 10 days ago
Correlation causation etc. I'm gonna start eating whole mice. It's a nice compromise. They're velvety.

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swayvil commented on Fight Chat Control   fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai
isoprophlex · 15 days ago
God fucking damn it not again

This is, what, the fifth time in ten years they try to pass shit like this?

swayvil · 15 days ago
The arrival of AI has made mass surveillance pass a certain threshold. Now we're just a step away from aristocrat heaven.
swayvil commented on Fight Chat Control   fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai
idiotsecant · 15 days ago
The fascist, autocratic impulse is a big in the human firmware and will never go away. We exist constantly balanced on the razor edge precipice because we are capable of little else. Self-governing humans are not a stable system.
swayvil · 15 days ago
Serfs and lords is pretty stable. But ya I get yr point.
swayvil commented on Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia   cam.ac.uk/research/news/l... · Posted by u/hhs
swayvil · 16 days ago
This would suggest that a city is a hive of insanity. The bigger the crazier.
swayvil commented on Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus
mike-cardwell · a month ago
Nah. 5 billion years from now we'll have the technology to move the Earth to a survivable orbit.
swayvil · a month ago
Or modify the sun.

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KarmaCake day854April 9, 2012View Original