For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
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When was the last time we said the Internet Protocol, routers and hubs worldwide, need "sex workers and black groups". Sounds like nonsense, because it's just a platform, a technology.
Well this is how social networks must also be. And a social network should allow multiple communities to form and each community to moderate itself. There's no other viable way I can think of.
The platform should only be invoked for dire circumstances when the platform integrity is being violated itself.
A social media site is like owning a bar. If nobody cool shows up, your bar is boring. If the bouncer doesn't remove loud overt bigots, that's who your customer base is now.
I frankly can't comprehend anyone who would see Elon's day to day erratic solo decisions that change the rules on the platform, and compare them to the nature of a standardized, predictable, basically "eternal" protocol like IP is.
Twitter also has no feature to build communities on top of it, who can moderate themselves. It's "flat". I this it has a feature to this effect, something roughly comparable to a "subreddit" would be, but no one is using it and it's clearly underbaked too.