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Michael Swenson
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Stanford Ethics and Technology Practitioner Fellow (prev Reddit, Integrity Institute, Meta, Discord). Ethicist by training, community, policy, trust & safety practitioner by trade.
Reposted by Michael Swenson
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data!

Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters. 

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Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
bsky.social
February 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Michael Swenson
We're stepping up enforcement of the Community Guidelines against spam and automated unsolicited interactions on Bluesky, such as bulk follow/unfollow and other forms of engagement farming.

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December 8, 2023 at 3:21 AM
An important moment in Bluesky's history, will be fascinating to see how tooling develops and the moderation practices and cultures that emerge from this foundation!
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Jun 23
We believe that a public commons is important for social media. These proposals for moderation and safety tooling have been in the works for a while, and we’re excited to share them for community discussion and feedback with you now.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-23-2023-moderation-proposals
Moderation in a Public Commons
In this post, we share why we believe a public commons is important for social media, as well as some proposals for moderation and safety tooling.
blueskyweb.xyz
June 24, 2023 at 4:06 PM