Your data should still be in bsky.app's PDS, you just won't be able to log into their app. You could probably try to find or modify a bsky instance that doesn't accept blacklists from bsky.app, and then you'd be able to log in normally. As for why bsky.app is stalling you, it's largely because they don't have an internal process for handling data requests from banned accounts, or even a person in charge of it.
There may be a way to simply ask them to migrate your data to another PDS, but despite this, your account will still not be able to log into bsky.app. Unless you set up your own full bsky network or join another bsky network, you won't be able to get your messages to appear on bsky.app either, unless your friends have left bsky.app as well.
I don't think they even had messages yet when I was on bsky, but maybe I should dig into this more and see if I can recover my posts
I was one of the early users of bsky.app too, and bsky.app's privacy policy clearly states that you can access and request your personal data:
> Your Privacy Rights. Depending on what laws apply to your personal information, you may have the right to:
> [...]
> Request Access to and Portability of Your Personal Information, including: (i) obtaining access to or a copy of your personal information; and (ii) receiving an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or asking us to send that information to another company in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (also known as the “right of data portability”);
> Request Restriction of or Object to our processing of your personal information;
> —— https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy
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The bad news is that my friend realized that the account blocking message comes directly from the PDS code logic, so modifying the bsky app to get around the restriction is not an effective way to get around it. The good news is that I found your account status is "Takendown", and only "Deleted" and "Deactivated" in the code logic will cause the account data to be completely deleted from PDS.
So, if you still need your data, just knock on their door every day.
What door is there to knock on? They're not on nostr
Haha, if you enjoy Nostr there's no need to knock. One person is powerless against a company, unless you knock loudly enough to scare them.
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Sounds centealized and fragmented
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