Tech Talk: PMsky, enabling Peer Moderation on Bluesky

​Drew McArthur is building PMsky, a tool for peer moderation on Bluesky, where users can participate in voting on labels that have been applied to posts and users.

​Moderation usually is done by privileged moderators, and in most cases this is handled entirely by the platform itself.

​PMsky offers a new option, where moderation can happen based on consensus rather than consolidated opinions.

• ​Docs https://docs.pmsky.social/

• ​Homepage: pmsky.social

• ​Bsky: @pmsky.social

• ​Github: @AfternoonSky

​Drew McArthur (@drewmca.dev) is doing the initial work for the project, as part of his thesis for a degree in Media and Public Engagement at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

​A goal of my studies has been to explore how groups make decisions in the absence of leadership making decisions for them. In this context, the question is how moderation can work in the absence of a privileged group of moderators.

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