"I don't need "protecting" from ideas I may not agree with."

That's because you aren't the target. This isn't a discussion about if Love Island is groundbreaking tv or brain melting mush, it's about whether people are allowed to exist. Check your privilege and maybe try and exercise a little empathy.

I personally find the armies of people saying “you’re not allowed to say that” are generally worse than the people saying the thing that started it.

We seem to be increasingly falling into a trap of content being filtered and “made safe” for Adults as if we’re children.

For real. Like why can't I call white people "cumskin devil" and "crackers" at work as a joke? Truly our society has gone le WOKE.

I have no idea what the views of the person in the article are, but the Idea of a supposedly federated platform like blusky banning people is a bit ridiculous

This take is ridiculous, more like.

The whole point of federation is that each provider is responsible for moderation on their own service. Bluesky is indeed running a service, not just writing the AT Protocol specification. It shouldn't be controversial to boot people who have explicitly said they're there to promote bigotry.

And, because federation, then those bigots can make their own instance, right? Sure, and the Bluesky instance and everyone else should then defederate that instance due to harassment.

That's how federation works.

I don't want "discourse" with Nazis. I want to be somewhere Nazis aren't welcome.

Everyone has a right to free association. I don't want to frequent any website that caters to outright bigots. I choose not to be there. That is a right at least as important as this idiotic assertion that free speech means we can't say "fuck off."

you don’t start banning people you don’t agree with.

We do not tolerate intolerance.

I have no idea what the views of the person in the article are, but the Idea of a supposedly federated platform like blusky banning people is a bit rediculous. It only works while you have one big instance but once federation comes it may get messy.

Bluesky is moderated. If you sign-up from bsky.app, you are subscribed to Bluesky Moderation Service, and you cannot unsubscribe (as a requirement for Bluesky to even be allowed on the Apple AppStore).

As a user, you can host self-host your data on a PDS (personal data server), and Bluesky will scrape the internet for your account data and relay it into their app. Anyone with the means can scrape and relay data, but it's expensive and currently only Bluesky does this.

Anyone who operates a relay and runs an AtProto-powered app has full discretion over what they allow on their platform. In theory, you can certainly launch your own third-party version of Bluesky populated with existing users from bsky.social. However, there is no guarantee that bsky.social users will be able to see your content unless they log-in from a third-party app.

For more details about Bluesky's moderation architecture, click here.

I'd say we have a major problem with social media in the form of misinformation and radicalisation. The fact that anyone gives a shit about someone else being trans is enough for me to vote to have them blocked.