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   The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:36 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

   The person in charge of AT Proto has been having a meltdown for the last two days.

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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:34 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     Jay, again, who is in charge of the protocol, understands how it works.

     She's linked to an article that lays out in substantial detail why AT Proto is unsafe by design, and why moderation on AT Proto is necessarily pretend.

     There were different ways to design the protocol. And they chose the way that hurts trans people the most.

     https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b

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     (ActivityPub does fix this, tho.)

     Zé Andarilho repeated this.
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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:34 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     Other recent Bluesky blowups include:

     - Banning trans women for making Charlie Kirk jokes.

     - Banning trans women for saying they "wish ill" towards JK Rowling.

     - Inviting JD Vance to join Bluesky.

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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:35 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     TLDR: It's a protocol made by transphobes to do transphobia.

     Bluesky refuses to moderate anti-trans hate accounts, but does ban trans women for "harassment" if they post about how those accounts are bad.

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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:35 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     And according to the person in charge of the protocol, this isn't a Bluesky problem. It's a protocol problem.

     Bluesky isn't broken. AT Proto was designed this way on purpose.

     Which is true.

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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:35 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     The Fediverse doesn't need Eugen Rochko to ban Jessie Singal for us.

     We can do it ourselves.

     We have sovereignty over our own servers, and we can moderate how we want.

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     The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 09:03:35 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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     That's just not true about AT Proto.

     Moderation on AT Proto is only vaguely possible for Bluesky to do, because they're the vast majority of users on the platform.

     Not only is distributed "moderation" on AT Proto not real, but what little moderation that does exist will stop working if the platform does become decentralized.

     Labels are not moderation.

     Labels are labels.