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But isn't Bluesky the platform where they didn't want to moderate racism, sexism, ableism and other awful behaviour according to their founder?
I can't keep track of all the crazy developments in the social network space. Best to find a small little (FOSS+federated) niche you like and just ignore the new big fads.
I think that was Notes on Substack. But Bluesky has been fairly unmoderated too.
you are correct, that was Substack. their owner explicitly said they'd be laissez-faire on moderation even when bluntly asked about things like nazis, which looked so bad
@alyaza @Lost_Wanderer I just re-listened to that interview. #ChrisBest didn't explicitly say #SubstackNotes would be laissez-faire--he refused to say anything at all. It seemed to me like they currently plan to be laissez-faire until racism became a serious problem--I'm guessing he refused to answer the question so that he wouldn't give the far right a sound bite to latch onto and then give them explicit license to brigade the website with racist spam. This also makes him not seem like a liar in the event that they tighten moderation rules in the future.