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Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
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#142They will ban Bluesky too if it gets too popular .
Not so sure. I mean, as long as Bluesky doesn't just simply ignore a judge. Also, there has been some backlash.
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#143It saddens me the Brasil banned X because of racism, anti-semitism and hate-speech. But X is still not banned in the west. At some point we have to come to this realization in the west that absolutism is never the answer. Free speech is good upto certain extent, the way it was at Twitter before the rich and powerful took over. Moreover, it is content moderation and it doesn't have anything to do with free speech.
> It saddens me the Brasil banned X because of racism, anti-semitism and hate-speech. But X is still not banned in the west. From what I've read, that was not exactly what's happening with Elon Musk's Twitter in Brasil. From what I've gathered, Brasil informed Elon Musk's Twitter that in order to comply with Brasil's law regarding disinformation, libel, and propaganda, they had to appoint a legal representative to be…
You are ignoring the lead-up to this situation, where the judge is overwriting the law because he and his peers decided they are above it because they are the Supreme justices
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
> actually standing for free speech I don't know how anyone can continue to claim this with a straight face when he sued advertisers for not continuing to advertise on the website.
"The lawsuit from his X platform against the non-profit advertising initiative GARM has led to its dissolution. A major ad industry group is shutting down, days after Elon Musk-owned X filed a lawsuit that claimed the group illegally conspired to boycott advertising on his platform." -- Google I.e. Musk did not sue the advertisers.
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#147Copying over my latest backend status update; figure folks would find it interesting Servers are holding up so far! Fortunately we were overprovisioned. If we hit 4mm new signups then things should get interesting. We did have some degradations (user handles entering an invalid state, event-stream crashed a couple times, algo crashed a couple times, image servers hit bad latencies) but we managed to avoid a full outa…
That’s interesting. Why do you use event sourcing? Is having a full history important for a website/app like bluesky?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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this is called Popper's Tolerance Paradox, and you are quite right. it's truly amazing how many people dont really get that having only 99% free speech is just fine
It isn’t the problem of having only 99% free speech. It’s getting people to agree to which 99%.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do know it's about the people who stormed government buildings in a riot to overthrow the government? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_atta... Musk ist protecting the Brazil version of the January 6 rioters of the US.
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If the side wants violence and a Coup d'État by the military it's definitely the wrong side.
Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
#150I left Xitter about 6 weeks ago and went all in on Bluesky. Took time to give feedback to the algo, but it's doing much better these days. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much, you'll get the same news & events on Bluesky. A lot of people who were scared of losing their following are reporting more, better engagement with lower follower counts. What I really like about it is the ATProto, which while imperfect, s…
It also looks like Twitter but with none of the content