was trying to keep my complaints about atproto on bluesky, but i’m carrying this skeet over:
i love how the bluesky team’s entire thing was “if you don’t like the moderation here move somewhere else”, but if you actually try doing that and spin up your PDS and relay and stuff it’s all for naught because their moderation decisions are enforced at the appview level and you can’t easily run yours yet.
this is also ignoring the fact that there is no real system in place for federated moderation, as in: if you get banned from the appview you don’t get notified about it, you aren’t given a reason, you don’t know if it might be permanent or a timeout…