Humanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky#SiliconValley#BigTech #israel #genocide#Gaza#Palestinehttps://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115113184762671559
Humanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky#SiliconValley#BigTech #israel #genocide#Gaza#Palestinehttps://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115113184762671559
For the record, BS also isn't centrally blocked - if you run your own server or use an alt client, there's no block
"Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now" as by the company #bluesky Social, PB itself. See the original post of this thread.
Plain, simple, and correct.
Your post is what I mean by #decentralizationwashing: Claiming theoretical #decentralization, but without real-world relevance. Basically nobody is using an own Personal Data Servers or alt client. And wouldn't evade the block anyway.
Unlike #bluesky, #mastodon is not blocked centrally in Mississippi.
Glad to hear it.
It wouldn't have been technically possible anyway, since #mastodon is decentralized.
#decentralization #activitypub #atproto #bluesky #decentralizationwashing
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/
There have been several interesting discussions about what would happen if Bluesky PBC disappeared -- this thread from @phildini, for example, with great perspectives from @ted and @glyph.
Right now, 99.99% of the ATmosphere is on Blueksy PBC-hosted infrastructure, so there would obviously be a huge short-term hit. My take, though, is while things would be very chaotic for a while, there are enoguh independent infrastructure projects in the works that the network be able to start recovering relatively quickly. Blacksky and Spark are two of the independent projects that are farthest along, and I know a lot more about Blacksky than I do about Spark, so that's what I'll focus on. (You can find out more about Blacksky in Rudiy Fraser's Rudy Fraser's recent 🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable, and there are a lot more links here )
Blacksky currently still has some dependencies on Bluesky's infrastructure; in the thread I linked to above, for example, Ted Han discusses the role of the PLC directory. My guess though is they could come up with workarounds fairly quickly if they have to -- and Blacksky's rsky-relay already uses its own mirror of the PLC directory, so it's not like they'd be starting from scratch. And there's did:web implementation, which doesn't depend on the PLC directory; this might or might not make sense for Blacksky, but other projects might well make more use of it.
Blacksky currently only hosts around a thousand people on its own infrastructure, so there are likely to be growing pains. But the underlying AT Protocol architecturei is highly scalable, and Blacksky's been designed with a goal of supporting a few million people. That by itself is a lot smaller than Bluesky, but then again Blacksky's only one of many independent infrastructure providers, so they don't have to take the whle load.
While anybody who hadn't backed up their data from Bluesky's servers before they vaporized might lose a lot of their posting history and collections, a suprising amount could potentially be recovered from services like microcosm and zeppelin as well as relays like atproto.africa (which keeps the last three days of posts)
Bluesky PBC's platform-level moderation plays a key role in spam and malware filtering, CSAM scanning, and other stuff. Behind the scenes, though, they also outsource all their automated scanning to Hive, so independent implementations could do the same -- or find another solution.
Other projects aren't as far along with a complete parallel infrastructure stack as Blacksky, but in a crisis situation they could probably cobble somethiung together fairly quickly – either deploying stuff at an earlier stage they had planned(Gander, for example, might well get their elbows up and launch a few months ahead of schedule) or by using Blacksky's implementations.
All that being said, the devil is in the details, and there certainly are a lot of details to be worked out.
Then again I've been consistently impressed with the collaborative problem-solving approach of the AT Protocol developer community, and they'd certainly take this as a challenge to address.
Will Bluesky Block Most Red States?
Digesting Sarah Perez's @Sarahp great TechCrunch article on #Bluesky blocking users from Mississippi (https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/mississippis-age-assurance-law-puts-decentralized-social-networks-to-the-test/), and noticing that almost all the "red" states have similar laws to Mississippi (see below).
So, will Bluesky soon be blocking users from these states? Do users want to take that chance?
It's easy to set up a truly decentralized Mastodon account, even if only as a backup >>> https://joinmastodon.org/
"ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."" by @jdp23
https://privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-please-stop-arguing-about-whether-bluesky-is-decentralized/
"ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."" by @jdp23
https://privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-please-stop-arguing-about-whether-bluesky-is-decentralized/
There have been several interesting discussions about what would happen if Bluesky PBC disappeared -- this thread from @phildini, for example, with great perspectives from @ted and @glyph.
Right now, 99.99% of the ATmosphere is on Blueksy PBC-hosted infrastructure, so there would obviously be a huge short-term hit. My take, though, is while things would be very chaotic for a while, there are enoguh independent infrastructure projects in the works that the network be able to start recovering relatively quickly. Blacksky and Spark are two of the independent projects that are farthest along, and I know a lot more about Blacksky than I do about Spark, so that's what I'll focus on. (You can find out more about Blacksky in Rudiy Fraser's Rudy Fraser's recent 🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable, and there are a lot more links here )
Blacksky currently still has some dependencies on Bluesky's infrastructure; in the thread I linked to above, for example, Ted Han discusses the role of the PLC directory. My guess though is they could come up with workarounds fairly quickly if they have to -- and Blacksky's rsky-relay already uses its own mirror of the PLC directory, so it's not like they'd be starting from scratch. And there's did:web implementation, which doesn't depend on the PLC directory; this might or might not make sense for Blacksky, but other projects might well make more use of it.
Blacksky currently only hosts around a thousand people on its own infrastructure, so there are likely to be growing pains. But the underlying AT Protocol architecturei is highly scalable, and Blacksky's been designed with a goal of supporting a few million people. That by itself is a lot smaller than Bluesky, but then again Blacksky's only one of many independent infrastructure providers, so they don't have to take the whle load.
While anybody who hadn't backed up their data from Bluesky's servers before they vaporized might lose a lot of their posting history and collections, a suprising amount could potentially be recovered from services like microcosm and zeppelin as well as relays like atproto.africa (which keeps the last three days of posts)
Bluesky PBC's platform-level moderation plays a key role in spam and malware filtering, CSAM scanning, and other stuff. Behind the scenes, though, they also outsource all their automated scanning to Hive, so independent implementations could do the same -- or find another solution.
Other projects aren't as far along with a complete parallel infrastructure stack as Blacksky, but in a crisis situation they could probably cobble somethiung together fairly quickly – either deploying stuff at an earlier stage they had planned(Gander, for example, might well get their elbows up and launch a few months ahead of schedule) or by using Blacksky's implementations.
All that being said, the devil is in the details, and there certainly are a lot of details to be worked out.
Then again I've been consistently impressed with the collaborative problem-solving approach of the AT Protocol developer community, and they'd certainly take this as a challenge to address.
Scientists are moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky, drawn by its simpler design and less aggressive algorithms. 🧬
Still, Mastodon offers stronger privacy and open-source values, making it a better alternative for many. 🔒
Why not choose Mastodon? 🤔
Healthy, respectful science communication needs better social platforms. 🌐
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/
#Science#Scientist#Scientists#SocialMedia#Privacy#Twitter#BlueSky#OpenSource#Mastodon#DigitalFreedom#Freedom#Communication#Tech
What are subjects related to the #Fediverse, #Bluesky, and the entire open social web that are at the top of your mind now, in late summer 2025?
How could we get them best covered at FediForum in October?
Trying to do a bit of a research into the total cost of running your own ATProto architecture (not planning to do that, just curious), and came across this Bluesky network map. Interesting.
Trying to do a bit of a research into the total cost of running your own ATProto architecture (not planning to do that, just curious), and came across this Bluesky network map. Interesting.
Trying to do a bit of a research into the total cost of running your own ATProto architecture (not planning to do that, just curious), and came across this Bluesky network map. Interesting.
I know people are arguing in the comments of this post, but —
Can we notice that — there is a conversation happening across the Fediverse, ATmosphere, Mastodon, and Bluesky.
And, consider that some level of success for the broader Social Web 🙂
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3lwzadikbrc2u
#ATmosphere #bluesky#BridgeyFed#bsky#Fediverse#Mastodon#SocialWeb
Yess! 🙏 This should hopefully made bridging threads with back-and-forth replies between B/M accounts more reliable 🎉
Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable: How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Excellent article by @rudyfraser.com@bsky.brid.gy
"[Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media."
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacksky-grew-to-millions-of
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