How are you going to handle internal community discourse?

[spookalucca]

How are you going to handle internal community discourse?
[a pre-seeded question by northsky social cooperative members]

[spookalucca]

As fairly and charitably as possible. We will have more details forthcoming about our moderation approach, principles, and our plans for new tools and capabilities in the near future. It's a big topic and deserves its own manifesto.

What we can say for now is, our community has been going through it lately, we know. Discourse after discourse has created rifts and schisms and rivalries (to put it kindly), and we're hoping the move to Northsky Social, for those who want to take it, can be an opportunity to start fresh, come together, and heal.

That being said, we know there are literal bad actors, not just with folks with bad takes or uncharitable interpretations of other people's words, but legitimate predators and organization wreckers. Northsky Social will not jeopardize the safety of our community members by allowing known bad actors to join.

Another thing we can commit to, is to clearly communicate why certain moderation decisions are made. This kind of transparency has been lacking from the Bluesky Safety team, and we're confident we can do better. Why? Because our moderation remit is for marginalized people BY marginalized people. And when we make mistakes, and we probably will, we'll own up to them, because that's how we learn and grow.