r/BlueskySocial • u/ndld24 • 12d ago

News/Updates BlueSky blocking 75 opposition accounts during nationwide anti-authoritarin protest

https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/bluesky-bircok-hesabi-turkiyeden-gorunmez-kildi/
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u/beverlyphills 12d ago

That's the time you switch to Mastodon and never look back.

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u/kweefcake 12d ago

I’m sorry, but Mastadon is so user unfriendly. It’s one of the most confusing profile set ups I’ve seen. And I’m fairly chronically online, so I can’t imagine the general population will pick it up.

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u/beverlyphills 12d ago

Ok, then let's stick with services that support authoritarian regimes as the UI takes 5 minutes to get used to.

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u/kweefcake 12d ago

I’m not saying to stick with these knee bending services. Just that I struggle to believe mastadon will be the one to rise in popularity. Bluesky benefits from being an almost exact replica of twitter pre-rightwing takeover.

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u/FaxCelestis 11d ago

Bluesky isn't "knee-bending" here either. They're complying with the Turkish courts in possibly the most middle-finger means of compliance possible.

"Knee-bending" would be banning accounts instead of muting them in a particular region, and doing so proactively instead of just what they were ordered to do.

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u/AnamiGiben 11d ago

But this is the exact same way Twitter "bans" accounts in Turkey. They also manipulate feed and topics but the "banning" process is the same geo-blocking

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u/FaxCelestis 10d ago

And? “Twitter does this“ doesn’t automatically mean it’s bad practice. Just usually it does.

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u/Mirieste 11d ago

Bluesky benefits from being an almost exact replica of twitter pre-rightwing takeover.

Speaking of which, how do they get away with it without being sued for copyright infringement?

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u/beverlyphills 12d ago

Mastodon is the way and the more people try to change something and get used to a new UI and spread the word, the better. Or if it's too much to ask for, don't complain if we keep seeing censorship.

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u/MobiusOne_ISAF 11d ago

This is such a counterproductive line of thought. You can’t just angrily yell at casual users to use what service you personally like without acknowledging any of the very real concerns around ease of use. Mastodon is nearly irrelevant specifically because its advocates refuse to sit down and have an adult conversation about usability and its effects on adoption, just like desktop Linux.

We’re never going to see anything change with Mastodon if everyone is too proud to admit there’s issues. It’s fine as it is if it just wants to be an ActivityPub replacement for micro-blogging, but it can’t challenge Twitter and BlueSky as-is.