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To display this information in the user’s client app, the client queries the user’s own PDS, which then fetches the neccessary data from an App View. The App View is also responsible for enforcing moderation controls: for example, if one user has blocked another, and one of the users’ repositories contains a record of an interaction that should not have been allowed due to the block, then the App View drops that interaction so that nobody can see it in the client apps. This behavior is consistent with how blocking works on Twitter/X [ 61 ], and it is also the reason why blocks are public records in Bluesky: every protocol-conforming App View needs to know who is blocking who in order to enforce the block [ 16 , 41 ]. If users are unhappy with the moderation rules applied by the App View operated by Bluesky Social PBC, it is always possible for third parties to operate alternative App Views that index the same firehose and present the data in a different way

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To display this information in the user’s client app, the client queries the user’s own PDS, which then fetches the neccessary data from an App View. The App View is also responsible for enforcing moderation controls: for example, if one user has blocked another, and one of the users’ repositories contains a record of an interaction that should not have been allowed due to the block, then the App View drops that interaction so that nobody can see it in the client apps. This behavior is consistent with how blocking works on Twitter/X [ 61 ], and it is also the reason why blocks are public records in Bluesky: every protocol-conforming App View needs to know who is blocking who in order to enforce the block [ 16 , 41 ]. If users are unhappy with the moderation rules applied by the App View operated by Bluesky Social PBC, it is always possible for third parties to operate alternative App Views that index the same firehose and present the data in a different way
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jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 04:49:27 JST jonny (good kind)
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They continue to misunderstand or refuse to acknowledge the risks of the protocol, and this paragraph is a decent example - you are free to choose a different service if you dont like something. Its a market, consumer choice solves. Notice the "well behaved" part though. Adversarial actors can and will follow you, and there's very little you can do about that since identity is so cheap on the protocol. You can just infinitely spawn accounts and troll someone into oblivion in a way that isnt possible on other mediums. You can simply block all new contact, but then that activity will likely still be visible to everyone else on the platform, shrouding everything you post in hate, spam, etc.
Id love to be wrong about this, but when they truly open federation I cant see how it wont go off like a bomb, or else require really strident relay-based moderation, as the devs described to me here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1711#discussioncomment-8032293

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