https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3m2fjnh5hpc2f

Would projects like this one, which pulls only a subset of Bluesky data straight from the firehose, and can be processed as the end user pleases, help mitigate this limitation?

Bluesky is still the arbiter of what their firehouse emits

Theoretically they could maintain that filtering only occurs on the client level but they've made the choice to exclude banned users from the firehouse so their moderation choices effect everyone