[puff_pastry]

How does any of this address fake news, bots, or inflammatory discourse? It feels like a lot of technical jargon that neither improves nor worsens the platform compared to what already exists. Clickbait will remain immensely popular, regardless of whether you implement a fantastic cryptographic datastore or not.

[jauntywundrkind]

Twitter has a very active community of folks doing disinformation research & working to uncover bots and state actors and propaganda. Since the data is all public on Bluesky and since you can't really delete old data (you can add a new record saying to please ignore previous data), I think it will be vastly easier for good civic works like this to resume & bring some sunlight in. We've had to trust the other social networks with whatever job they care to do for a while, and this alone brings me great hope.

There's absolutely for sure social challenges with clickbait. I'd love to see labelers spring up which users can opt into to give some forewarning, which can label posts as clickbait or misleading or not-supported-bt-their-links, et cetera.

Bluesky already has great defenses against some of the worse forms of inflammatory discourse. If someone reskeets only to dog pile on you, you can remove your inner skeet from theirs. Your blocks can remove previous interactions you've had from your feeds. When people are coming in to flame you, there's a much more mature set of tools on Bluesky to handle it.