Sure, bu offensive speech is a subset of free speech.
You can't censor "offensive speech" while claiming to support free speech.
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Censorship is harmful. A form of violence. Curation is valuable. And is a public service.
The Retards who designed bluesky don't understand that. And that's why it's a failure.
Also why most normies won't accept the fediverse.
People will pay for a good feed.
They won't pay to be censored.
BS is languishing because its dominated by the 'progressive' crowd, which sees constant and active censorship of diverging opinions as virtuous. This in itself is a rotten strategy, but moreso the people that frequented BS were the ones that likewise cheer on agressive censorship, and these are almost uniformly noxious and nasty people that poisons the social ecosystem they are part of, and will *always* resort to destruction and backstabbing when they don't get their way.
The exact same goes for the schizotroon part of fediverse/mastodon; it's choked in its own noxious uniformity and hence unappealing to most people.
Its also just bad business strategy.
It kinda works in places like reddit. Where you want very few writers and many readers.
Reddit money comes from page visits. Not content writes. Writing there is hard.
So highly curated content will be more profitable.
But reddit censorship basically 9 out of 10 writes. Most content is removed or hidden.
In a social network where the primary goal is to socialize censorship will demoralize and push users to other platforms.
They aren't there to spend most their time reading. They are there for interaction.
Every single act of censorship cuts deep into the users enjoyment.
They want to see replies, likes, shares.
When they see none of that they leave.
You could get away with that in 2020 when there were effectively zero alternatives.
Not 2025.
No one who isn't a totally insane woky is going to use it.