Hey @pillowfort.social any news on what’s going on today? I’ve gotten the first image before but a refresh fixed it. Never seen the second though and It’s been like this all day long.

I’ve joined Mastodon! Idk if I’m going to stick with this instance or not, but I’m committing to blorbo.social for now since I wanna try out an instance other than the main mastodon.social one. Drop your account name below so I can follow more people! blorbo.social/@robot_horde

Since Bluesky is punishing people for saying mean things to the official White House account, I’m once again reminding people that Pillowfort wouldn’t pull this shit.

Okay maybe just one

Oh they’re really protecting the pedophiles this is bad

I’ve joined Mastodon! Idk if I’m going to stick with this instance or not, but I’m committing to blorbo.social for now since I wanna try out an instance other than the main mastodon.social one. Drop your account name below so I can follow more people! blorbo.social/@robot_horde

The focus on pornography and blaming it for every social problem has led to actual predators flying under the radar until it's too late. Stop blaming porn and start finding actual solutions.

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs. Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

The Catholic Church requires bishops to submit their resignation to the Pope when they turn 75 and the Pope chooses whether to accept it or not and as much as I hate having to hand anything to the Catholic Church, they are kinda on to something

We’ve got three more spots left for series 2 of the Digital Pets mini zine. Want to create something for the zine? Send us a DM or join our Discord for details!

Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.

This is amazing news, good job everyone!! It also shows that these things are never one and done. Gotta be ready for when they bring it back because they will.

And this right here, as everyone with functioning brain power warned, is why online age verification DOES NOT work. There is no way to implement it without putting anyone who uses it at risk. Again: just amp up Parental Controls and start holding parents responsible for their kids' online access.

Seeing some people criticizing being concerned about this as follow policing, but this is Rose's work account. Her professional account, used for work. The official conduct of Bluesky leadership. Following a 90-follower account that basically any community modlist would hide for you. Optics!

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

I told my wife I love baseball and she is sobbing uncontrollably on the bed because what if you replace baseball with racism

I’ve been saying this for a minute now, this site is Blue Twitter It’s Twitter if it was libbed up and ran by a very small team. Emphasis on libbed up, not leftie

I was blocked by a member of Bluesky's staff for asking if a comment made in official capacity as a Bluesky staffer represents the company, which implied that a trans woman would have been harassed by the entire team.

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

bsky.app/profile/pair... Oh so it's this post he said yeah too?

So I guess let it be known that the Bluesky team does not actually believe in decentralized moderation! Sounds like a good point to add to a Play Store review, for example.

Here’s a multi use invite link to join Pillowfort. If I missed any misconceptions, let me know! I’ll do my best to answer questions The users want more people & the site could always use more support. So don’t be shy to ask for help, they’re very welcoming www.pillowfort.social/users/sign_u...

Since I see misinformation spread about Pillowfort often, and I think it’s a great site to join if you don’t want all your social media eggs in one basket, here’s a thread debunking common misconceptions I’ve seen over the years. 🧵

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

apparently this post was temporarily marked as “intolerant” lol

and hey on the topic of ID laws do you really trust Bluesky, whose admin and c-suites physically cannot stop themselves from posting-through-it, to be able to hold onto your fucking govt ID and not leak it in a data breach like Discord? these policies suck, they are dangerous, call your reps

Anybody got other microblogging suggestions? I’ve been told I should check out WAFRN & Mastodon, but in terms of Mastodon I’m overwhelmed by the instance options. Any advice on how to jump ship would be much appreciated bc I would like to have another platform other than just my Pillowfort.

Oh they’re just continuing to scramble to find a justification. Lying about Link’s alt text is a particular kind of evil I’ll say If this is the alleged post, you can check the alt text for yourself pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

This is genuinely some bullshit on bsky's part. A reaction meme of charlie kirk gets a Black person a permanent suspension, but people who actively doxx and spread hate against marginalized people not only get to stay, but het followed by mods? We see you, bsky, and it's pretty fucking disgusting.

Bluesky mods crossing some lines here. Real petty stuff leading to a permaban. And this proves a key point about BS as it stands *not* being truly decentralized. If it was, a BS ban wouldn't impact the Blacksky instance; the user would still be able to post and interact with those users.

"if it can happen to link it can happen to any of us" is likely the desired takeaway for the users from this ban. It doesn't make the terrible optics any better (I do not think Link should have been banned)

link and umbire getting banned from bsky even though one/both were on blacksky shows the weakness of atproto. use any part of the bsky infrastructure, they can do bullshit like this.

Pro-tip if you're making a site on neocities; host your images on neocities and not, say, imgur, which is region blocked and would make all your images not work in the UK and other select regions.

SHE’LL BAN LINK BEFORE JESSE SINGAL??????

and now we’re apparently permabanning one of the site’s earliest users and ambassadors, I guess to make an example, because that always turns down the temperature ridiculous

So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

Like I don’t know how you simultaneously undercut your argument for being a meaningfully decentralized platform while *also* doing a racism while *also* doing a transphobia while *also* proving to everyone you’re too petty and involved in forum drama to hold your position but Graber pulled it off

If I didn't know better, I'd say the people running BlueSky don't actually believe in decentralized moderation

Pillowfort is still not dead! You just need to tag and repost to relevant communities, and your posts will be found! 😊

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite. To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

Hey @moderation.bsky.app once again, yall are banning people for posts that are not against the TOS, what's up with that? Marginalized people criticizing AI is against the rules now? Yet Jesse Singal still gets to roam free?

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

Seems they "unbanned" it. Before and after.

Censoring non-con is muting trauma, victims, and survivors experiences. This is beyond "purity" ideology. This also protects those abusers and burry all of us who suffered. Why can't I process my pain and experience with abuse through my art? Why I am punished for it?

A lot of people have been talking about Pillowfort on BSky lately! If you've heard about us but aren't really sure what we offer or where to get started, here's a handy guide to help you get started: www.pillowfort.social/posts/922593

yea I don't think this is some elaborate plan, I think she and others on the team just genuinely value the Singals of the world over us and get a little upset at the idea of the uppity trannies and faggots telling them what to do

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL -RIGHT- -NOW- the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

I really wanna point out this post where someone called out the bluesky dev for their double standard on banning people who didn't break the rule, the dev asked for specifics, and then stopped responding after getting an answer. Absolute fucking clown shoes behaviour.