Nothing says "Science should be free of gatekeeping and special interests" like trying to move #ScienceTwitter to #BlueSky, an invite-only proprietary service run by tech billionaires 🤷
Jeg syns det er ille fint her, men frykter det tar laaaang tid å få mange nok over. Virker som #bsky har en sterk magnetisk kraft på de fleste twitterflyktningene… at Masto har en vei å gå mtp onboarding?
@jeff Moderation in the fediverse is, wait for it, federal. Every instance handles moderation their own way.
If you don't like what a certain server is doing, you can block individual people or whole instances.
If #bsky or #threads are not not moderating their users effectively every single user and every instance can choose to silence or defederate from them.
right off the bat they are describing moderation as synonymous with ranking. the profound misunderstanding of how abuse happens online was baked in early.
Is it wrong that I want a client that lets me log in to my #nostr, #Bluesky / #bsky, and #Mastodon / #ActivityPub not to have to have 3 apps / 3 sites open at a time…
Incredibly fascinating and tragic to observe a decentralized social platform get off the ground without the effect of distributed de-hierarchical multi-instance moderation that we experience on fedi. Super crucial to instantiate a decent prototype instance prior to federating, right? #bsky is in a terribly awkward stage right now, but at least it’s closed and can contain its nazibar moderation problem to address before it opens for business.
If interested, Star (if your bsky handle is in your bio) or reply so I can follow you over there!
A bit of #infosec stuff is brewing over there but not much. I know bsky will improve with time but so far the features and community on Mastodon and specifically here on infosec.exchange are vastly better than what bsky offers. The make-your-domain-your-bsky-handle is the one fun novelty thing I've encountered so far =).
For me, I'll go where the general infosec community goes. I came over in full during one of the mass Twitter migrations and have been happy with the infosec discourse here so far. If another shift happens I may follow but I get the sense that unless something awful happens here this is probably a more permanent home for most (especially given how well @jerry has been running things).
If you’re feeling any #bsky#fomo this week (and it is fascinating being from the #fedi to observe folks grasp with open access and federation on the horizon) let me tell you that a non-trivial amount of the site’s engagement leads to this error message cul de sac, the remains of the so-called hellthread, where if you weren’t in among the early wave (I wasn’t) it’s a bit befuddling. This is what you get when you beta launch without any moderation tools (they just appeared this weekend).
The ratio of folks on #bsky using custom domains is really interesting and will get moreso when the 2M reportedly on the waitlist get released. So many wonderful influences of the #fediverse on #Bluesky and that software makes using domains as handles nice and easy. Who knew zany tlds could be so much fun? But of course such a nerdy proto web thing could unexpectedly monetize the great federation. #namespace