Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure - Turkish Minute
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This probably wouldnt make sense in a decentralized platform- oh
(Dunno if it's apparent, but this is a criticism to the bluesky platform being heavily centralized)
So bluesky isn’t free. And it’s American. Deleted my account yesterday.
Sadly, many people I know are staying there instead of figuring Mastodon or Friendica out.
Fun fact: if you mess up captcha verification (due to Internet connection or your human error) during account creation, your account gets instantly suspended and then you receive a shady email that is actually from Bluesky, saying you should send them via email a picture of your ID.
B-B-But Bluesky is b-b-better!!!
I mean, it's still objectively better but certainly not perfect. Anything that takes from swastikarmaker is a net positive.
Should be noted that to my understanding it only restricts visibility of this account on the official bluesky client. And only inside turkey. the accounts are not banned. the owners can still access them.
And third party clients (which can ignore the moderation-labels) can still see and interact with those accounts just fine. even inside turkey.
It still sucks that they bend the knee though.
lol. lmao even.
Who could have seen this coming? 🤔
Switch to Mastodon.
Honestly so glad I hadn’t jumped on board with Bluesky yet. Took them less than a year to become a walking billboard for decentralization.
Yet another “libertarian” licking authoritarian boots.
so they're like raisins then? or virgins?
Why even be on social media, that crap isnt good for you 🙄
The irony here is unreal
why?
Using social media to say that you shouldn’t bother using social media
That's hypocrisy, not irony.
The irony comes from the fact that the statement criticizes social media while being made on a social media platform itself. It shows a contradiction between the message and the medium, which can be seen as a form of self-awareness or humor.
when did anonymous forums become social media?
This thread is like talking to my father who insists that "mainstream media" is evil, while he watches Fox News and misses the irony entirely.
When they allowed you a form of media through which to socialize.
always have been
since usenet.
It's social. and it's media. you put them together like peanut butter and jelly and you have an awful sandwich, but it's still social media.
You get downvoted but you are right.
Social media is when the main subject is your social stuff. Like your person, your pictures, your opinions, etc.
Lemmy is a forum where we talk about subjects and don't share our social stuff by default.
just because everyone is objectively wrong doesn't mean I'm not an old man yelling at clouds