Elijah

bluesky CEO Jay Graber just said any banned accounts are "welcome to join elsewhere in the federation and perhaps reconnect with us after we exit beta". https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/2/23708385/bluesky-weather-report-moderation-app-store

what I take away from this is that bluesky believes it is a federation but knows that bsky.social isn't. the problem is that bluesky is not a federation. it lacks that ability and it should not be calling it one. when you create a "pds" it's more like creating your own twitter/glorified postgres db

Everything happening on Bluesky, Twitter’s most chaotic successor

The invite-only, Jack Dorsey-backed social network Bluesky had a surge of interest and new users last week. But between the appearance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, harassment scandals, and platform errors, a new community is finding its footing.

The Verge
May 3, 2023 at 12:01amWeb
Show threadElijahMay 3, 2023
like if they said "welcome to join elsewhere in the federation when it exists" I mean they're not wrong, but there is nowhere for banned accounts to go. if bsky.social was a separate instance but you could create a federated one then, okay, but you literally can't 💀