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I mean, how is that different than choosing between commercial social media platforms today? You're tacitly accepting whatever their moderation policy is. If you're fine with that, then it really doesn't matter which server you choose, the generic primary Pixelfed server will probably be fine for you. If you do care, you can change your mind. Fortunately it's much easier to move instances and still be found than with any commercial social media platform.

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I think moderation is a place where ATProto stands above the other options available. ATP gives the choice to the user, for moderation and algo feeds. Don't like Bluesky moderation, swap out the moderation service without changing apps or servers. Do your current moderation services miss something? Add another and stack them together. The design creates competition for both moderation and algorithms while removing the switching cost

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

Among the big ones I find it hard to not be surrounded by nazis or other forms of eugenics enthusiasts regardless of their moderation. On Mastodon it's easy to do. Some say Bluesky has a fix for it but I dislike the people promoting it the hardest too so I didn't check.

Though I have to do a cleaning on Mastodon, shut away the Threads people that crop up on there now.

There are some (incomplete) bluesky mastodon bridges/merged clients, so it's possible to be majority in one and follow people on the other if your network isn't concentrated on one.

https://fed.brid.gy/

https://openvibe.social/

I’d say bridgy is quite an impressive bridge, incomplete isn’t fully capturing the extend of how well it work.

For me it is just the potential for endless meta discussion about moderating.

I agree that we choose one way or another, but putting that on you to pick between a bunch and then wonder what the difference is. It's a sorta "back end as a feature" but that is endless that is also a little disconnected from the experience.

I'm not explaining it well, it just seems like "more" work to some extent.

I think there's some truth to this, but I think we've just having a large meta conversation about social media moderation as a society right now that's largely unavoidable. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

On the other hand, I've largely avoided it because the fediverse allows me to just read the messages from the people I want to hear from, and put some filters in place if a few of those people occasionally talk too much about things I don't want to read about. I really have no interest at all in an algorithmic social media feed. If I want to read more about a specific topic, I head to a forum (hi, HN) or check my RSS feeds where the conversations are (generally) more focused and in-depth anyway.

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