@rolle

Please allow for a little bit of nuance.... Yes yes yes bsky is centralized, yes we should all hate them. Blah blah.

But the Mississippi law if different than the eg UK one, it puts particular burden on the corp.

Bsky is a corp. Its not decentralized but it's not (yet anyways) enshittified. Yes it might, or even likely. But don't let they distract you from the harm at hand, yes, as it illustrates the exposure of a centralized corporation.

There is actual subtlety here. Its not a goddamn football game. Bsky is, for the moment at least, an ally. We need to act as if they might remain one. Or not, this is a side show....

.... Federated instances in Mississippi are also exposed to liability. It is true there is some temporary or momentary safety in obscurity for smaller instances but THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION. And if MS state law enforcement singles one out they will be harmed, greatly.

Pissing on bsky, here, in this case, is going along with the fascists divide and conquer strategy. DON'T. Make allies with people in the same dilemma. Now is now, if bsky turns into a Meta ok fine, condemn them then.

Doing so in advance just seems deeply childish. In the middle of a fucking war with fascists.

We all need to me more strategic here.

@rolle - is this still an issue for those using third party Bluesky clients though? My guess is that it isn't, but I have no way to test that

@rolle Do some of the implications have to do with Missouri requiring gov’t proof of ID, or having some kind of access to this identifying information? I thought most age verification systems were on a sort of unsupervised honour basis that regularly got ignored. IOW, does Missouri now track identity in their geographical territory?

@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

@rolle @mastodonmigration

Just curious. How is this implemented? Do the local ISPs block certain domains or is this on the website to not serve to people in these locations?

@rolle It’s still Corporate media and not Open source.

@rollehttps://mastodon.social/@Forbo/115076176265970482

@rolle only mastodont users seem to care bout decentralisation 😆

@rolle This is a very centralized decentralized platform.

Isn't your rationale the same used by extreme right groups to spread violence?

@rolle Unfortunately, Mastodon isn't available in Mississippi … 🤪 … which Mastodon ?