'Composable Moderation' May Protect Bluesky from Political Pressure

"Composable moderation decentralizes rule-setting, reducing pressure on any single platform and limiting attempts to “work the refs... pressure a singular trust and safety team into making decisions that favor their side”.

Gives a good summary of how "Composable moderation ... uses labels to describe issues with content or accounts, leaving individual apps to decide how to act on them". When Bluesky labels an account, it directly affects "how that account appears inside Bluesky. Other apps can choose to hide the account, show it with a warning, or ignore the label entirely". The account itself remains intact on the user's PDS, which is "only cut someone off for serious issues like illegal content".

The closest analogy is Reddit, which "sets a baseline of what is acceptable, but thousands of subreddit communities apply their own rules, filters, and enforcement styles on top" - ATproto implements "that layered, community-defined model ... at the protocol level".

Crucially, "moderation could be provided by many different apps and services... reduce the political vulnerability that comes from having a single company responsible for every enforcement call".