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Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by nosioptar »

Angostura wrote: post #16
impulser_ wrote: post #14

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You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded. In the later case, you can set up your own subreddit, surely?

Not really.

Few years ago, I replied to a comment asking if a crime in a news story was punishable by death. I replied that yes, the law allowed the death penalty and linked the law in the state where the crime happened. (I also added a parenthetical that I oppose the death penalty.)

I got a two week ban for inciting violence.

I imagine some automod type of tool flagged my comment, no human could have been stupid enough to think I was inciting violence.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by IndySun »

alex1138 wrote: post #58
pelagicAustral wrote: post #2

I'm left wondering if maybe all the years I spend tinkering with Linux servers and self-hosted infrastructure are just about to pay off big time now that there is a massive move for governments and institutions to take control of their infrastructure... You still pretty much need a human to spin and maintain infrastructure, wire things securely, and monitor... Now I just need to wait until someone rebrands sysop into…

Tim Berners Lee has Solid

I like his vision. Can you recommend a pod? The UK based Solid Community ones (and others, apparently) are 'experimental'.

"To use this system, you must understand that we cannot make any guarantees regarding the security and privacy of data that you may store in a solidcommunity.net Solid pod, or concerning the system's functionality and availability."

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

qwerpy wrote: post #55
phillipcarter wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You almost certainly are lying and were not banned for saying that.

I wasn't banned from the whole site but I definitely was perma-banned from the local subreddit. That's how reddit works. Moderators get to moderate as they see fit, and short of some egregious terms of service violations, reddit admins won't interfere.

I was also quickly banned from participating in my local sub. It is a shame that the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated- they are effectively isolating those in the community that don't have an "acceptable" viewpoint on any given topic

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by rsynnott »

curtisblaine wrote: post #48
burtness wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right-wingers are so reliably sore winners. X is still comfortably the dominant microblogging platform on the internet, Facebook and Youtube happily boost and feed right-wing content and concerns. Tiktok has been brought to heel. ATproto hasn't found a way to encode communism - just like activitypub could be used for Truth Social - the ATmosphere will turn right once the ecosystem is in anyway relevant politically or…

My question was in good faith tbh; I see other protocols (Mastodon, nostr) not being really commercially relevant but being much more politically diverse than bsky. I was wondering why is that - is something inherent to the protocol (e.g. I heard that it's extremely hard to set up your "alternative bsky" if you don't have resources, unlike Mastodon instances, so you're not really incentivized to just do it and see ho…

Hrm, I’d have said that Mastodon, if anything, was leftier than bsky (unless you count Trump’s mastodon instance, but as it doesn’t federate you probably shouldn’t). It would certainly have a larger hard-left representation. Nostr, being vaguely crypto-flavoured, is messier.

Given that Twitter has been taken over by a far-right lunatic, one might reasonably expect the alternatives to lean a bit left.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by nailer »

macintux wrote: post #19
impulser_ wrote: post #14

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Banned from Twitter for a 2-word response: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mky5taqg3222 Plus news organizations are punished for including links in their content. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publish...

I’m not entirely sure if believe a person that writes about “the USAID cuts, which I call a ‘Silicon Valley Genocide’ in my book.” about the specific reason they were banned from X, given how many anti capitalism, left, radical Islamic and even pro Hamas accounts happily exist on the platform.

Threatening violence? Yes you’ll get banned. Otherwise nobody cares.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by rsynnott »

curtisblaine wrote: post #53
curtisblaine wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Censored" I mean "flagged", sure. In practice, they're all hidden from the casual user. But really, I'm interested on why ATProto was touted as revolutionary while in practice it powers a standalone heavily politically biased social network where moderators are extremely active flagging everything that's on the right. In that respect, Mastodon is more "revolutionary" - you handle your instance, you provide your mode…

@phillipcarter: of course it's users (and mods) doing that, but in the end , if you open bsky today you see a single, huge, left-biased social media. If you look at Mastodon, you see at a lot left-leaning trans-and-furry-friendly instances, true, but you also see a bunch of right wing instances plus Gab. What happens with bsky today (single instance, echo chambered) is simply something I don't expect from a "distribu…

Gab doesn’t federate, so isn’t really part of the fediverse. They’re just using the software; they’re their own thing, not part of a distributed social network. One could make an atproto island that didn’t federate, I suppose, but it would be a lot of work for no obvious reason.

(There are a few other far-right mastodon instances, but then there are pockets of the far-right on bsky, too)

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by kypro »

ajs1998 wrote: post #57
curtisblaine wrote: post #30

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They made a transphobic joke 3 times and the bluesky users that enabled their intolerance filter never saw it. What exactly is the problem? The posts weren't deleted. Nobody liked the joke because it's a bad joke.

I don't use bluesky, but out of interest is this "intolerance" filter effectively a political filter, or an actual "intolerance" filter?

Like if someone is talking about "white fragility" and being intolerant towards white people, or being xenophobic about American culture, would that be likely to result in them being flagged for intolerance also?

Asking because while I don't mind the concept, I find in practice most of the time platforms add these filters and rules as a way to enforce ideological consensus.

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

rsynnott wrote: post #59
curtisblaine wrote: post #30

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What do you mean by ‘obscured’ here? Bluesky users can voluntarily sign up to blocklists (as could Twitter users before Melon broke the API, though they were never a first class feature there). But they’re not _mandatory_? Like, if you want to consume tedious transphobic ‘jokes’ on bsky, you can. Personally, I’m kind of bored of their one joke, and opt not to.

'One' joke? It's a satirical website, even a cursory check shows that your tally is off base

Re: We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

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Post by stvltvs »

curtisblaine wrote: post #48
burtness wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right-wingers are so reliably sore winners. X is still comfortably the dominant microblogging platform on the internet, Facebook and Youtube happily boost and feed right-wing content and concerns. Tiktok has been brought to heel. ATproto hasn't found a way to encode communism - just like activitypub could be used for Truth Social - the ATmosphere will turn right once the ecosystem is in anyway relevant politically or…

My question was in good faith tbh; I see other protocols (Mastodon, nostr) not being really commercially relevant but being much more politically diverse than bsky. I was wondering why is that - is something inherent to the protocol (e.g. I heard that it's extremely hard to set up your "alternative bsky" if you don't have resources, unlike Mastodon instances, so you're not really incentivized to just do it and see ho…

The left-leaning vibe is a historical accident reinforced by user-managed moderation.

Bluesky came at the right moment to pick up lots of people fleeing Twitter after Musk's overbearing edgelord enshittification of Twitter.

Now, Bluesky's robust moderation tools allow users to subscribe to user-curated block lists. Users are empowered to decide they don't want to hear certain viewpoints. You don't want to see cat videos? Subscribe to a block list.

Right wing folks mostly don't care to try Bluesky because they have Twitter, but those that do try don't get much traction because no one sees their posts. Trolling and rage-baiting become unsatisfying when you're talking to yourself.

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