@Teri_Kanefield@HistoPol
Historically Labels have worked out sOoo WeLl for society. Super duper idea. Public stoning and Scarlet Letter combined. Good times for Federated Wannabe Twitter.
@Teri_Kanefield Yes, and those are in some sense easier, since their value can at least be measured by their utility. It's easy to see how the telephone is an improvement over the telegraph, even if you can't envision it before it's invented. But it's harder to categorically observe that, say, Twitter's design was an improvement over Facebook's.
Here SOME of it is about utility, but a lot of if is more subjective. Like asking "what kind of music will be popular in 5 years"?
@mattblaze@Teri_Kanefield Importantly, Twitter was not designed to be nor was it ever marketed as an improvement of Facebook. Likewise, telephony was not a substitute for the telegraph. One could argue that facsimile was an upgrade to the telegraph, and as such has been very successful, but this says nothing at all about the current utility of faxes and whether it would be wise to start a new business around faxes.
@Teri_Kanefield exactly. They’ve been doing this on twitter forever - creating lists of people they mislabel as far left or anti police etc. I ended up on one that was meant to trigger Nazis.
The technical discussion of the AT / Bluesky moderation implementation cites a reference to Jack himself:
From a Discord group I belong to:
"One potential clue is Jack Dorsey's Dec 2022 essay entitled "A native internet protocol for social media", which seems far more concerned about resistance to government censorship than delivering a better social experience"
...could the intention be to shed liability for all those thorny problems by ... outsourcing them?"
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