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   Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 02:20:41 JST Gregory

   Bluesky is preparing to censor things in response to government requests.

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     Adam (adamm_@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 02:34:16 JST Adam

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     @grishka Lol. Lmao even.

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     James Manes (jmanes@kcmo.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:48:20 JST James Manes

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     • ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

     @grishka @renwillis @cwebber Funny that it could potentially be decentralized as long as you’re a millionaire and can run your own relays for thousands of dollars per month. A bit counter to their marketing. I host a PDS and it’s basically dead weight for me. I wish I had just signed up on bsky.app, because there is basically no payoff right now, and I can’t migrate my account to bsky.app as that is prohibited. The model is so busted right now.

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     Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:48:21 JST Gregory

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     • ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

     @renwillis @cwebber no, as far as I understand it, if the Turkish equivalent of Roskomnadzor blocks bsky.app and all its related domains, that would only affect the official AppView. Which acts as your proxy into the network. So if you suppose that a different AppView exists and isn't blocked, you can, in theory, still use that to access the same network and post on behalf of the same account.

     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 repeated this.
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     Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:48:22 JST Gregory

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     • ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

     @renwillis I would call it semi-decentralized. You can run your own PDS, but while running your own relay and AppView is a technical possibility, it requires some prohibitively expensive infrastructure so no one has done that yet to my knowledge.

     Here's a nice detailed technical article on the subject by @cwebber: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

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     ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈 (renwillis@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:48:22 JST ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

     @grishka @cwebber as I understand it, if Turkey shuts down the main Bluesky instance, bsky.social, if I had my own "instance", it would go black as well.

     Here, if you shut down mastodon.social, mstdn.social keeps on trucking.

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     ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈 (renwillis@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 14:48:23 JST ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈

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     @grishka Given they a) aren't decentralized and b) want to operate in those countries, yeah, they will have to comply or leave the country.

     The real issue is the bullshit "billionaire proof" & claims of decentralization, which Bluesky is neither.