Ken White, aka Popehat, a lawyer and popular poster on #Bluesky was recently suspended (popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious…). Suspension now over, Ken writes:

"...I believe that returning after a suspension carries with it an implicit promise that I won’t post that, or something like it, again. I won’t make that promise, so I won’t return to Bluesky."

Indeed, Bluesky is demonstrating they can extort censorship with the ban hammer. Other users are put on notice it's not you this time, toe the line.

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“And now, inevitably, half of my #Bluesky timeline is like: oh, we need a service that’s resistant to this sort of shit, something that’s not beholden to capitalist pressure, something that’s queer-friendly…, quickly followed by but don’t say #Mastodon!
Sorry, I’m saying it. We want fucking Mastodon. It’s run by an actual non-profit foundation, none of this “public benefit corporation” bullshit. It’s not subject to creeping network-wide puritanism. Mastodon. Goddammit.”

giants-club.net/articles/just-…

Head's up, if you want to disconnect the bridge to Bluesky, here are the instructions. I exercised this option today, as a result of them "blue checking" ICE. I'd never allow Federation of an ActivityPub instance with Nazis on it, and Bluesky is no exception. #Bluesky

fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-pro…

WIRED: Would you welcome president Trump if he was debating joining bluesky?

@jay.bsky.team: Yeah, #bluesky is for everyone.

...

I understand that #ATproto should be for everyone, but decentralization means you don't have to allow everyone on your server. They can run their own and everyone can decide how to deal with that. The company doesn't need to make these decisions. She knows this.

I doubt @Gargron would welcome him on #mastodon infrastructure.

bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.b…

New: Fediverse Report 109

This week, an essay about #Bluesky's proposal for setting user preferences on their accounts. This allows people to indicate how they want their data to be handled off-protocol. I wrote about how the #fediverse can improve on this, using its strengths of many different communities, each with its own culture and values.

Also:
- Next week is the digital conference @fediforum
- A research dataset to compare Threads and Mastodon users

Read at: fediversereport.com/fediverse-…

!Friendica Support is there a reason i can't set notifications for new post of friends on #Bluesky (via the plug-in)

like I can for friends that are using #ActivityPub?

Friendica: Bluesky Beiträge abstellen

Ich lasse seit kurzen eine Friendica Installation unter fedinaut.de hosten und bin gerade dabei mich in die Administration hinein zu arbeiten. Was z. B. ziemlich nervt sind die regelmäßigen Beiträge von Bluesky die ich an sich gar nicht will. Zumal ich mir erst einen Bluesky Account zulegen müsste um auch so das es nach Bluesky zurückläuft antworten zu können.

Wie kann ich die abstellen?

#Friendica #Frage #Hilfe #Bluesky #2025-01-015 !Friendica Admins

Having criticised BlueSky a *lot* over the past few months, I do want to flag a couple of things that make it qualitatively different from Titter. At least for now.

1) their entire stack is Free Code, and their protocol is documented.

Christine's analysis suggests that doesn't help as much for potential self-hosting as it might. But it remains true that a well-funded organisation could stand up a complete replacement of BS, using their code.

Not true of Titter.

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#BlueSky

@cwebber

"ATProto does not scale wide: it's a liability to add more fully participating nodes onto the network. Meaningfully self-hosting ATProto is a risk to the ATProto network, there is active reason to disincentivize it for those already participating."

#ChristineLemmerWebber, 2024

dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-blue…

Oof. That is *not* good for the claim that BlueSky's protocol can be as friendly to decentralisation and independent hosting as the fediverse.

IMHO that's game, set and match.

#BlueSky #ATProto

#Bluesky no es descentralizada pero ofrece funcionalidades útiles para recuperar el interés por participar en #redessociales y la posibilidad de contribuir a su configuración de manera comunitaria.

elsaltodiario.com/redes-social…

Big congratulations to @jay.bsky.team and the whole @bsky.app team 🎉

With over half a million new users in the last day, Bluesky is demonstrating the power of open social networking and micro-blogging.

Thanks to @snarfed.org you can join in and post to Bluesky by following @bsky.brid.gy

We love to see new social grow, hopefully more to come!

#Bluesky #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia Technology #News #Fedi

I wish #Mastodon supported the kinds of "starter packs" just launched by #Bluesky. They're a great way to invite people to join a new platform and quickly find people and organizations that meet their interests.
bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2…

I'm committed to Mastodon, but I'm on Bluesky to explore and experiment. While I like these starter packs, I won't be using them. I want to invite new people (working on my topics) to join Mastodon, not Bluesky.

#Fediverse

Activitypub or Atproto ... one item that both Mastodon have in common with Bluesky is amount of "spam" links and accounts boosting those "spammy" accounts

Several "award winning art / photo" profiles I saw had 5 or more links including their pinned post

Win goes to Bluesky since they seem to have better control of that ... for now

#photography #mastodon
#pixelfed #misskey #lemmy #opensource #foss #bluesky #atproto #fediverse #activitypub

Currently trying the #BlueSky cross-posting, I'm finding out that I'm having problems with the newly-added support for hashtags in BlueSky in a specific case - if I add some text, then a link, then a series of hashtags, the hashtags will be messed up, and I'm not sure if the problem is from Friendica's side or from BlueSky's.

Example: bsky.app/profile/csolisr.azkwa…

!Friendica Admins !Friendica Developers

The developer of the Graysky client for Bluesky has written up how to embed replies from Bluesky as comments on your blog.

Like I said for Mastodon comments, not going to enable this on my site.
#Bluesky #comments graysky.app/blog/2024-02-05-ad…

#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:

“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹

Relevant GitHub issue: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…

¹ snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-intr…

HT @homegrown

#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros

I've been following things in #Bluesky, but the way it renders links really puzzles me.

1. When @davew is posting links, Bluesky is not showing the link cards.

2. When @jeffjarvis posts links his posts have link cards.

3. When @kottke posts links it does not show link cards, and includes some brackets.

This is frustrating, I would like to see the link cards always because I want to see the title and image of the post.

Also, some of the links show a warning when I click and some don't.

Fuck it. #YOLO

#Bluesky continues to be entirely non-responsive to the numerous security vulnerabilities I've reported to them, so I spent the evening writing up a nice README and a framework with exploit modules, and just made it all public.

Have fun.

github.com/qwell/bsky-exploits

#infosec #security

Si, esto pasa en #Bluesky pero también pasa acá en Mastodon, no se pueden subir Gif tampoco acá.

¿Para cuando @Gargron ? 🤔

Next week, join us for a webinar on how nonprofits are using emerging social networks—like #Bluesky, #Mastodon, and more—to advance their missions.

Featuring @evan, Sara Lonegard of #DistributeAid, Ravon Ruffin of #new_public

#OpenSocialMedia: Nonprofits FTW
colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/0…

The "protocol wars" on the #openweb such as #bluesky, #Nostr, and #activertypub. That building bridges between these protocols can be a good solution, as it is a permissionless way to connect different protocols without needing to get the codebase to change their project. The protocols are all #4opens and #openweb native, which is a positive development. However, the cultures of these protocols are different and can create messiness in the discussions.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

the key part is #4opens we don't have to ask its #FOSS and yes not saying you are not right, the current non federated #bluesky would be pointless.

#Nostr all ready has a working 2 way bridge to #activertpub, I am transparently reading and replying to #Nostr users.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

The "protocol wars" of new #openweb protocols, including #bluesky, #Nostr, and #activertypub, am suggesting that bridges between them are a good solution to the current issues. All of these protocols are #4opens and #openweb native, which is a positive development. However, the cultures of these protocols are different and this can create messiness in the discussions.

I advocate for a grassroots #DIY culture and urge people to focus on building bridges rather than adding to the mess.

#bluesky #Nostr #activertypub

They all share #4opens #openweb tech, so this is a win.

Where they differ is in the "culture" they come from and push.

#bluesky comes from surveillance capitalism, it's from the #dotcons and has meany of the same assumptions, just "better".

#Nostr comes from the #encryptionists and #bitcoin bro crew and suffers from being from this mess.

#activertypub is #openweb native and comes from the #4opens traditions the whole software world is actually built on.

#KISS

While I'm not inherently against competing protocols, it's really hard to see BlueSky as anything other than an attempt to (a) keep the fediverse from succeeding, and (b) taking over a "growing market".

stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…

#BlueSky #fediverse #OpenWeb

Looking like the flow of history is going to be a step to the #openweb with the recent #dotcons take up of #activitypub this will push Twitters #bluesky to a “me to” project, unless they bridge to AP which they will very likely will refuse to do, like diaspora, the same #geekproblem motivation repeating itself.

We do live in instresting times, agen for #openweb tech and its social power.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…