Comment by didntcheck
2 years ago
This sounds like a good approach. Pretty much exactly this "opt-in/out, pluggable trust moderation" is something I'd thought about a number of times over the years, yet I'd never come across the relatively simple idea implemented in the real world until now
Do you/anyone reading know of any prior work? The closest I know of is this site, in fact, which is opt-out but not pluggable. Or maybe email spam filters, from the POV of the server admin at least
There aren’t a lot of exact matches that I’m aware of. Spam filters, ad blockers, Reddit, mastodon, and block party all came up during the discussions.
So, on Reddit, there's the problem that if you're interested in railroad trains, you have r/trains and r/trains2 and r/bettertrains and r/onlytrains due to differing moderation policies and clique drama, with plenty of duplication (and Reddit crossposts are always disconnected conversations).
My understanding of Bluesky is that the equivalent would be a ‘feed’ tracking #trains filtered by some union or intersection of moderation teams. Is that correct?
That's how you'd build a subreddit-like experience on Bluesky, yep. Something we're looking at right now is bundling all these lego pieces to make that a bit more convenient to do.