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Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.
For now, maybe.
For real. They just can't stop banning people.
And it's alredy full of trackers.
Thankfully you can just use another instance.
I cannot find any other instances, do you happen to have a list or could point me in a direction? (I know you could host your own instance with this: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds )
There's a few, not too many at the moment because most people just host a 1-person pds.
I can't find a post I remember seeing with a bunch of them listed, but I can say that I remember that blacksky runs their own pds and relay, and it's open signup
Can you elaborate on their use of the ban hammer of injustice?
I don't use it, so I'm unaware of any dramas, but mass banning sounds interesting.
They banned a bunch of people including Jessie Gender (now reinstated) for mild criticism of the Harry Potter author.
They banned people for posting old (public domain) short films for fictional violence.
There was another ban wave when people were criticizing the hateful words spoken by that one guy who was violently killed.
There's an explicit promise of an upcoming wave of noncon artists. (I'm personally not a fan of such art but don't think they should be banned)
Some people have been reinstated, but the explicit focus on limiting speech has a real chilling effect.
I'm positive I've missed some from longer ago.
I think there were also some cases were Turkish accounts that criticised the Turkish government were banned, iirc.
That was great, things for sharing!
I don't understand how so many people are comfortable voluntarily subjecting themselves to nazi propaganda and rule. The nazi-saluter all but literally has a dial that amplifies the most fervent to the expense of everyone else
Huh.
Seems like there's a weekly article about how it's dead or an echo chamber because there's less tolerance for hatred.
Guess not.
X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It's just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.
There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying "Formerly Twitter". Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what's going on..
jup… just call ot twitter
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