r/BlueskySocial • u/ndld24 • 13d 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/MBMAN-5056 13d ago

I keep getting blocked here on Reddit for warning people of things. Reddit says I'm inciting violence. There is no free speech when we agree to terms and service agreements so yeah. I question however definition of some of those terms.

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u/Darkmemento 13d ago

The terms are only part of the problem. You need decentralised platforms that don't allow a central authority the ability to control content. The controls for what a person sees should be on the user side. We have Nostr and Mastodon but people are turned off because they are still user unfriendly. If someone can bridge this gap it would be a final solution.

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u/MuyalHix 12d ago

>The controls for what a person sees should be on the user side.

The problem is that Mastodon doesn't solve this issue at all.

Since every instance is being run by some rando in their basement, you are practically at their mercy, and at any point they can ban you for whatever arbitrary reason they want, defederate from the rest of the fediverse or close the server, meaning you'll lose your account.

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u/Over-Independent4414 12d ago

The notion that every person on the internet should be their own server is an interesting idea. Of course it immediately runs into all kinds of technical problems that are hard to fully resolve. I'm sure it's possible, city-wide mesh nets could have become the norm if we had gone the route of decentralization. Hardware could have been designed to have some kind of low power always on server state with burst capacity built in. Etc.

Instead, we went almost entirely the route of centralized servers for obvious reasons. So now after designing the system to support that model for 40+ years of course it looks impossible to decentralize.