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You may have heard VP JD Vance is now on #Bluesky

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"We welcome the Vice President to join the conversation on Bluesky," the company said.

Would like to point out this is a fundamental weakness of a centralized US corporate platform. The company has no practical option but to 'welcome' VP Vance.

In a truly decentralized network, individual instances have options on how to deal with such a situation. With Bluesky it's an all or nothing proposition.

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BlueSky users will block him in very large numbers, that is how they deal with toxic people there.
in reply to Joe

@not2b

Yes, but that is an individual option, and therefore limited. There is no mechanism for organizing collective action and the associated pressure instance wide policy decisions bring to bear on the networked community.

@Joe
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Sure there is. There are shared block lists you can sign up for or contribute to. There are specific lists of MAGA accounts to block, for example.
in reply to Joe

@not2b

Good point about sharing block lists, however that is still a very different, and less effective, a mechanism than whole instances exercising moderation for their users.

@Joe
in reply to Mastodon Migration

You are absolutely correct, but I have a block list that auto blocked him for me, which, while not as good as decentralized social media, is a huge improvement to other corporate social platforms.

@not2b

@Joe
in reply to Joe

@not2b a small detail, blocks are public in AT and it can be risky for some people to block an important person 👀
@Joe
in reply to Mastodon Migration

i read VP Farce, and thought that quite appropriate, but I misread...
in reply to Mastodon Migration

how much do you want to bet this will cause another little mini-surge of people joining
in reply to Mastodon Migration

This is an opt in vs opt out question. On #bluesky you are opted into everything unless you take action to disable it. Vance starts with the largest possible audience by default.

On #Fedi you can choose an instance that will opt you out of things you want nothing to do with by default. Vance has to work to get the reach he would have by default on Bluesky. And that work has to meet the conditions of those he hopes to reach.

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@reflex

This is a really good explanation of the fundamental structural difference between how a truly decentralized network responds to such an event versus a platforn that for all intents and purposes is centralized.

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His first posts are a bunch of Transphopbia hate.
I think he wants to get banned so he can shut the platform down.