Bluesky, Censorship, and Country-Based Moderation ⇥ fediversereport.com

Laurens Hof, the Fediverse Report:

There is a technical story, of how Bluesky and the AT Protocol (ATProto) do composable moderation for specific countries. But this is not just an interesting technology, it has implications of government censorship more broadly. Not only is the Turkish censorship of accounts even easier to sidestep, it also allows for new ways to highlight and create visibility for the content that the Turkish government wants to be hidden. To explain how that all works, first a closer look at how moderation works on Bluesky.

I understand why some would disagree with Bluesky’s approach and prefer the way of Mastodon. But I do not think Bluesky’s handling is invalid or necessarily inferior — just different.