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@karlos Mich wundert halt, dass, obwohl so viele Dienste schon so lange existieren, dann doch so wenig geschieht.

Richtig, wenn es keiner macht, dann bleibt es eben so, wie es ist. Ist mit allen Dingen so.

Aber dann muss man sich eben auch nicht wundern, warum zum Beispiel #bluesky nach einer ca. einjährigen Anlaufphase auf einmal so viele Nutzer bekommt. Man ist ebenoch ein wenig besser in Sachen PR, vielleicht ...

I wanted to briefly interject into the childish sandbox dispute between #Mastodon and #Bluesky: Nothing is better for one's #mental #wellBeing than the ability to disable any #commenting option under a post.
Thanks to this, I was able to post a political article about a hot potato in complete peace yesterday. Disabling #comments *and* quote-posts.

I won't post that here because I can't stand the comments that are caught like a glue trap by certain topics. Here I just boost direct media links.

Driving in the mountain wonderland

Yeah, mountains are part of driving longer stretches in Norway. You can take the long road following the coastline or cross over the mountains.
In late winter, in April and with good weather, the mountains are fastest. And prettiest.
Of course, snow removal when the snow layer is 2 meters thick or more means you must stop your car and climb up to get a view of the mountains. Or have a look down at the main road on the right here.
You do not stay there long. When the base temperature is minus 22 degrees Centigrade, any windy breeze makes the real temperature even colder.
The heaters in the cars sold here is made to handle it. I remember one time my first car, a Datsun, had a car heater that nearly did not. It was December, and minus 34 degrees outside.
Going outside when it is that cold, every nerve in your skin and breathing system cries out: "Seriously?" "This is not real!" "Get inside, you maniac" "Cold. So cold. Freezing cold. Unbelievable cold!"
Hot food and coffee never taste better than after a walk in the cold. Even a short one.
But it is worth visit Norwegian mountains under snow.

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#snow #roads #deepsnow #roads #mountains #mountainplateau #bluesky #snowpassage #freezing #cold #minus22degrees #cardrive #roadtrip #strynefjellet #norway #arctic #april #early #spring
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@jplebreton its a good collection of criticisms, but not even scratching the surface of the problems across what we might call #opensource alternatives to big adtech. #Mastodon, #activitypub, #bluesky, #atproto etc. are not remotely polished "end states", they are the beginning of the beginning. In practically all ways: architecture, funding models, user interfaces and functionality these are just early proof-of-principle platforms. Overly aggressive positions simply reveal digital illiteracy.

Is this (further) proof that #Bluesky is in fact, not decentralised and why it's an issue?

Though the more interesting question is, how different would the response/outcome look like on
#Fediverse if, say, #Mastodon's mastodon.social instance is ordered to do the same?

I have to say that Bluesky's way of addressing orders like this seems pretty interesting upon closer inspection (just read the report/article). If you've developed against their APIs before, ya know
they be extra.

RE:
https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzsztvxus2v

#BreakingNews
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has confirmed that he met today with #WrongfullyDeported man #KilmarAbregoGarcia in #ElSalvador. The two shared a meal, and the Senator was able to relay messages to and from Abrego Garcia's wife.

Van Hollen had earlier announced he was heading to El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia. Initially, the Senator attempted to visit Abrego Garcia in the prison, but was turned away. Thursday afternoon, he posted photos of himself and Mr. #AbregoGarcia with the text:

"I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight, I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."
[ @VanHollen.Senate.gov on #BlueSky ]

#ElSalvadorPrison #Trending #Deportations #TrendingNews #Immigration #ICE #SenVanHollen #ChristopherVanHollen #VanHollen #Maryland #Deported

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@hailey

This is all very interesting, but this thread is targeted at normal users, not Bluesky technology enthusiasts. The post qualifies the only one platform assertion with "for all intensive purposes." Right now normal users are blocked from seeing the subject account. Yes, there may be workarounds, like using VPNs, but the fact remains that #Bluesky is censoring the user.

a thought on #Bluesky ´s moderation problems, prompted by Turkish government requests: as I understand (?) BS, the underlying idea of both company and protocol is to build something that ‚de-bundles‘ previously unified aspects of centralised social media (I’m avoiding the ambiguous term decentralisation..). In particular, that debundling is meant to ˋsolve‘ the impossibility of content moderation by applying a bare minimum of intervention to a base corpus of posts while allowing individual users to develop tools to select subsets they wish to see. In an ideal world, that distinction corresponds to a large set of „lawful, though potentially awful“ content from which users then choose (composable moderation). Two different kinds of ˋmoderation‘ actions match the former and the latter - infrastructure takedown (purge from network) vs. labelling (hide, blur, warn). This hits the buffers of reality in two distinct ways: 1) „lawful“ varies across countries; 2) user disapproval (particularly while building out the system). Using ‚soft‘ tools for (1) leaves a US company actively hosting & facilitating content other nations view as damaging (and the „one step removed“ defense may seem disingenuous or insufficient). Conversely, user sentiment has prompted terms of service that effectively apply infrastructure takedowns (banning users) for ˋmerely‘ awful but lawful content (by US standards). Both of these undermine the position of neutrality that BS seems to want to occupy 1/