Bora M. AlperApr 15, 2025

Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

https://lemmy.world/post/28275799

Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government - Lemmy.World

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmuz3nr62k26 [https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmuz3nr62k26] Email from Bluesky in the screenshot: > Hi there, > > We are writing to inform you that we have received a formal request from a legal authority in Turkey regarding the removal of your account associated with the following handle (@carekavga.bsky.social) on Bluesky. > > The legal authority has claimed that this content violates local laws in Turkey. As a result, we are required to review the request in accordance with local regulations and Bluesky’s policies. > > Following a thorough review, we have determined that the content in question violates local laws in Turkey, as outlined in the legal request. In compliance with these legal provisions, we have restricted access to your account for users.

Show threadtoy_boat_toy_boatApr 15, 2025
pardon my ignorance, but how is a de-centralized and de-federated online community bound to such annoyances?
Show threadegerlachApr 15, 2025

For those who don’t know, Bluesky isn’t really federated. The only way to host a non-Bluesky instance required 1TB of storage in July 2024, and 5 TB of storage in Nov 2024. Could be way more than that now.

You basically have to be a company to federate into the ATProto (Bluesky) ecosystem. You can’t just “stand up an instance”.

Lots of detail: dustycloud.org/…/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

(I know you’ve already realized that you were conflating Mastodon with Bluesky, I’m putting this here for others who come along so they can get the facts).

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Show threadMeldrikApr 15, 2025
Also DMs always go through Bluesky themselves.
Show thread73msApr 16, 2025
yeah the DM system is something completely exclusive to their official servers and that they just rolled up without caring at all about trying to keep up the pretense of wanting to build something decentralized.
Show threadNatanael

They’re planning on migrating to the new MLS group messaging encryption standard, which is built to support federated messaging encryption (more efficient than the current Matrix protocol)

(also, Matrix are also planning on adopting it, and the RCS spec is getting it too)

It’s long to take a while though. The standard is very recent and nobody has a complete implementation yet.

Apr 16, 2025 at 11:17amWeb