Connected PlacesApr 17, 2025

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week.

I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on #Bluesky and #atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-based-moderation/

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation

This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.

fediversereport.com
Show threadKoen de Jonge - SynQApr 17, 2025
@fediversereport can you do me a favor and create a ‘blueskyreport’ account for all the Bluesky reporting so I can keep following the Fediverse report account for news on the #Fediverse and not be bothered by all the Bluesky stuff?
Show threaddamon
@koen @fediversereport As long as you make the same request of any account/site etc that uses #fedi in the name but only really has content about #Mastodon . That can be confusing and limiting people’s experiences when the #Fediverse goes well beyond Mastodon. Since you care about clarification and not being bothered surely you’ll advocate
Apr 18, 2025 at 11:45amWeb
Show threadKoen de Jonge - SynQApr 18, 2025

@damon @fediversereport I am very much in favor of calling this whole thing the #Fediverse and I think indeed for example #Peertube and #Pixelfed and #Castopod should also be named.

In my opinion Bluesky is not part of the Fediverse and cannot even be considered federated as long as there is only one centrally managed instance.

And as long as that does not change I am not interested in joining it or even reading about it more than once a quarter.