Bluesky's AI Moderation Dilemma as Platform Exiles Arrive

Bluesky did not explicitly promise to be AI-free. What it offered, through its decentralized architecture and its emphasis on user-controlled feeds, was the implication of agency — a platform where the systems acting on your content would be legible and contestable. That implication is what users are now stress-testing. The person who returned to Facebook after a decade and was immediately banned by what they described as an AI system acting without recourse ^[3] did not stay on Facebook to complain. They came to Bluesky, and the audience that received…