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To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
 
gerdbonk said:
Okay. I joined BlueSky. Now what? Is democracy restored?
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Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
 
jt512 said:
Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
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Or maybe most of the users just want to share pictures, video and art or hang out and chat with friends.
 
jt512 said:
Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
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:cautious: Meanwhile, back in the Real World, as opposed to the rightist echo chamber.....
 
I have read that BlueSky is decentralised, and people can set up their own server. How can they censure and kick out people, then? It doesn’t sound very decentralised to me.
 
steenkh said:
I have read that BlueSky is decentralised, and people can set up their own server. How can they censure and kick out people, then? It doesn’t sound very decentralised to me.
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Looks like that is still a work in progress. My reading is that the focus is on user experience so the user's "block" request is implemented via their server so they don't see blocked material. Then they seem to suggest that blocking a server would be a community action as is done on Mastodon. I just skimmed it though
docs.bsky.app

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.
docs.bsky.app docs.bsky.app
 
Wudang said:
Looks like that is still a work in progress. My reading is that the focus is on user experience so the user's "block" request is implemented via their server so they don't see blocked material. Then they seem to suggest that blocking a server would be a community action as is done on Mastodon. I just skimmed it though
docs.bsky.app

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.
docs.bsky.app docs.bsky.app
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Thanks. I read it, and I think I understand what they are doing. Their main concern seems to be bad actors that implement blocks against others, and they have good ideas for stopping it, or at least keep the impact low.
 
Wudang said:
Reports that Chinese media are worried that their investments in bots, influencers etc on Twitter may be wasted.
www.semafor.com

Bluesky boom worries Chinese media

State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com www.semafor.com
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Oh, how hard would it be to retool their twitter bots?
 
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