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@tess @davidgerard @lrhodes I assume that’s one reason the OPS proposal didn’t fly in 1997. Nobody stepped up to do it. (I know more about this than I should because my very first blog post back then was about OPS. Working on getting that stuff back up as we write.) But also, since it was a per-user browser standard, it was actually just a way for labeling orgs to suck up lots of info about users.

I’m not sure the “why would anyone want to set one up” question is actually that hard to answer. Fediverse instance owners might band together to set one up in order to reduce their overall workload. And they’d all chip in for it.

But without a specification on how one does it, it’s certainly not useful. Given how long Bluesky has been under development, it amazes me how much on the moderation side is an afterthought.

Okay, maybe “amazes” isn’t the right word. “Frustrates” is closer. I’m certainly not surprised.