I keep catching wind of serious drama on bluesky with people apparently freaking out about lack of moderation and what more can be done yet here I am on Nostr, basically completely unfiltered and yet everything is rather chill. I do a touch of due diligence to ensure someone I follow isn’t unhinged and I’ve blocked maybe a few obvious bots of the spammy kind but otherwise it has been great and largely wholesome. What gives? I think they honestly must just love the drama and self importance of censorship enforcement on others and that stirs up more of the same. What a bizarre and fascinating natural experiment

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Yes, they are writing multi paragraph apologies about how they need to do better. If they are unwilling to break things for fear of user backlash at this point, they have no chance. They are wasting a lot of resources being busy not coding.

I recently wrote about this on a broader scale. If you do any censorship that eats resources and takes freedom from your users. How much resources and how many freedoms are you willing to part with to stop the users from seeing a naughty word? The reality of what it takes if you really think about it is more than anyone guesses when they set out on that path.

In that system you aren't even remotely free. Some overworked central authority has to decide what is truth and what is rude for every post and you will have no recourse against them. No one will always agree with them.

There it is, authoritarianism VS anarchy as the only possible outcomes of reasoned consistent thought. Run on warp speed in public since the only laws in question were speech laws. Voluntary free association with no rules built the nicer place. Even the people with the keys to the kingdom are unhappy on bsky.

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