The goal of Bluesky is to turn social media into a shared public commons. We don’t want to own people’s social graphs or communities. We want to be a tool that helps communities own and govern themselves. The reason we … Read more
Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike. This strike is in protest of recent and upcoming … Read more
This is a point I keep seeing people miss in the debate about social media. Moderation is the normal business activity of ensuring that your customers like using your product. If a customer doesn’t want to receive harassing messages, or … Read more
mod team resignation by BurntSushi · Pull Request #671 · rust-lang/team · GitHub {{ message }} Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to … Read more
It was Patrick Collison, Stripe’s CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles of early 20th-century Progressivism was guaranteeing freedom of expression from corporations: If you go back to 1900, part of the fear of the … Read more