Re:Bluesky now has 30 million users
by FreeTrade on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:36AM
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Muting is fine, blocking is censorship.
You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)
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You already could have a client that treats a block as a mute. Easier to just open an incognito tab though.
> In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and client.
Re:Bluesky now has 30 million users
by ChicagoDave on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:46AM
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I’d argue this one feature is the core reason Bluesky has 30 million users.
There is no doubt censorship is popular. It's not for me though.
From that document -
>creation of reply posts, quote posts, embeds, and mentions are blocked;
This is the unmitigable censorship that can't be removed without decentralization.
Re:Bluesky now has 30 million users
by ChicagoDave on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:38AM
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The users are doing the blocking, not Bluesky.
We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists.
It’s my individual right to avoid assholes.
Not censorship.
That's what your mute is for. 100% support that.
Bluesky preventing users from replying to your posts on your say-so. Yup, there's a word for that.
Re:Bluesky now has 30 million users
by ChicagoDave on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:19AM
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Yeah, it’s called harassment.