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I thought it didn't matter because it's decentralized, right? 😉

#Bluesky #Decentralized #Decentralization #ATProto #SocialWeb #SocialMedia

Bluesky post: Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours. — Bluesky post: Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

@hack13@cyberfurz.social replied · 4 weeks ago

@rolle I mean, technically your data if you operate on your own PDS then you do have ownership of your data and it isn't blocked... however, because how AT Protocol works... Bluesky is pretty much the AppView which is what allows you to view your posts. So technically, if you wanted you could stand up your own AppView instance connected to your PDS. It would still let you interact with others on the AT Protocol. Granted, it does create other questions of will they block PDS's from connecting to their official relays if they are hosted in banned region.

#bsky #bluesky #atproto

Joachim and 2 others boosted

Eve Ventually

@EveHasWords@toot.cat · last month

Bluesky is changing their ToS soon ... but you have to agree to their future ToS to use their website today. Which is kind of asinine (or sinister ... I don' t know yet). I put the old ToS into a differencing tool but it turns out that's borderline useless.

Because they have changed almost everything so significantly that a side-by-side comparison is useless. I can't find anything from DDG explaining what Bluesky is actually doing. If anyone has a summary somewhere, I'd appreciate it.

#Bluesky #Bsky

Eve Ventually

@EveHasWords@toot.cat · last month

Their arbitration clause is noxious but they do specifically mention that it doesn't prevent you from bringing them to small claims court, waive any of your statutory rights, or criminal misconduct. The criminal misconduct paragraph is kind of silly in that they still benevolently offer the option for you to address it in arbitration.

Arbitration does not apply to claims that fraud, criminal misconduct, or gross negligence by Bluesky caused death or personal injury. Those matters may be brought in court or arbitration, at the claimant's choice, subject to these Terms.

Oh, yes, I'm sure people will be jumping at the opportunity to allow Bluesky to have the arbiter they're paying for handle those cases instead of bringing it to a real court which can mete out real consequences.

Eve Ventually

@EveHasWords@toot.cat replied · last month

They did the same radical rephrase and reorganization with their new privacy policy. After I finish reading the new privacy policy, I have two more pairs of documents to read.

I'm mostly only reading the new documents because how #Bluesky is organizing this makes it exceedingly difficult to cogently see what has changed.

Even if the new terms, privacy policy, copyright policy, and community guidelines are all extremely reasonable ... making it difficult to see what has changed is anti-consumer behavior. In a less unjust world, #Bsky would face consequences for doing this.

Eve Ventually

@EveHasWords@toot.cat · last month

#Bluesky #Bsky

deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io · 2 months ago

lmao, give up a facial scan to hang out in a 24/7 worst of the worst Left Twitter™ fart-in-a-car vibe?? sign me up for that deal 😹 #bsky

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 2 months ago

"At The Spectator, Sean Thomas regrets that “Bluesky is dying” – and claims to have known it would fail from his first visit to the site, “a bad vegan cafe, full of humorless puritans”."

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/27/revival/

#bsky #blusky #publicsquare

Keith (karmajunkie)

@kbg@atx.pub · 2 months ago

been spending a lot more time on bsky lately… there’s things i like about #fedi and #bsky both, but the latter feels like it has the momentum now. one of the cool things is finding old follows from twitter there, actively posting, even when i follow a parallel account here that doesn’t post much.