Bluesky is not decentralized.
So Bluesky has just banned some guy exclusively on Turkey only because the Turkish government asked.
(from https://x.com/aliskorkut/status/1912191854939943362, this is the profile: https://bsky.app/profile/carekavga.bsky.social)
Discussion
Anything with a CEO is centralized.
We all adopt nostr at the reputational price we deserve.
This is a bit misleading. This guy is not banned, his DID is still broadcasting. Official bluesky is playing by the rules around the world and has local moderation servers that you have to subscribe to if your country requires it. He’s blocked through that service, but only the official client even requires it. Anyone anywhere else can see his posts and anyone in turkey using a third party client can bypass the moderation server.
It’s almost as effective of an actual ban as muting is here.
Bluesky has third party clients?
A bunch that are Twitter style, plus a new crop that are more like Instagram and TikTok.
Isn't it a bit misleading to imply that more than 12 people in the world are using third party clients?
Are you serious? One of them was briefly higher than the official app in the App Store. Third party PDSs are still a small percentage, but even that is growing.
Look, Bluesky has no shortage of faults, decentralization being one of them, but all of the attacks I see here seem to come from pure ignorance.
Which one?
Flashes, I think? I’m just recalling screen shots from a few weeks ago, could definitely be wrong, but there are a few popular alternate clients now.
That seems to be the most popular indeed, but it's not a normal client, it's a niche client that only displays photos and videos apparently (?) by filtering them from the official Bluesky thing, and it has 263 ratings on the App Store.
The other one I saw mentioned in multiple places is GraySky, which seems to be a fork of the official client with some modifications, it has 63 ratings.
Also Skeets, OpenVibe, Bluescreen, and a few others…
No wonder the left loves Bluesky... nostr fixes this
Everyone knows it since day one derek😎
RIP. Turkey can ban deez nuts. Well, not while deez nuts are on Nostr. Lol
AND IT BEGINS
ENJOY THE NOISE
just read a thread on a big subreddit about this topic. People asking for alternatives, mentioning Mastodon. zero mentions to Nostr.
we are so early!
Mention Nostr!
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I think BlueSky started out with lofty goals, now its going to ignore those goals for user count and VC money.