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FYI @jay.bsky.team still is keeping up anti-trans and anti-palestinian misinformation and propaganda.

Please report this disgusting blocklist (It's a harassment blocklist calling everyone hamas supporters) bsly.app/profile/did:...

Jay, The CEO of bluesky is a pedophile, seriously.

It's been more than a day and @moderation.bsky.app still refuses to do anything about these vile lies. Remember this when @jay.bsky.team and @bsky.app try to claim their platform is safe for trans people.

Bluesky peeps adopted hashtag #fuckaas to recognize each other on Mastodon.

Why do you suck?

@jay.bsky.team Resign, NOW.

WHAT THE FUCK? YOU PROMOTED A DOCUMENTED RAPIST'S VIBE CODING TOOL? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? bsky.app/profile/jay....

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out. Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces. Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

TL; DR In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it. After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up. After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools fin/11

If this becomes a big enough problem, we can switch gears over time! When Blacksky Private Posts ships (eventually) that won't touch Bluesky services at all and we (the Blacksky community) can decide collectively how we want that to work (maybe we don't allow images/videos at all!) 10/11

Other concerns that have been raised today seem to be around our processing of user data. Our privacy policy and processors are public blackskyweb.xyz/about/suppor... Bluesky, which we view as a partner, may process your data differently than us when you use their app or even blacksky.community 9/11

While not at all trivial to do, Blacksky is in the fortunate position to have the technical talent and money in the bank to make this a trivial decision to do this week This is different from our community.blacksky.* API which is going on hold (less Barnes & Nobles, more invite-only Book Club) 8/11

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary. It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

While I'm grateful tools like this exist, to me this is still an unacceptable experience. We can do better than the disconnected posts, profiles only visible on certain sites, inability to do global search, and inaccurate like/follow counts that are tolerated on other decentralized networks. 6/11

As you can see in this screenshot, not only are AJ Link's post and profile still available elsewhere, he is still posting (though seemingly less happily) freedom of speech unimpeded This app Red Dwarf by @whey.party skips the bookstore and goes straight to the author. blacksky.community doesn't 5/11

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?" For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry. Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

Using book publishing as an analogy for AT Protocol, a PDS is like self-publishing your manuscript. You always retain a copy of it and can take it with you elsewhere (as long as you keep backups). An App View (or API Server) is like a publishing house or bookstore. It's the distribution. 2/11

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Bluesky moots finding each other on Mastodon is a beautiful sight.

This is a awesome thing from skylight.social, bsky.app/profile/did:...

Most out-of-touch thing i've seen lately

you couldn't have done it without us. remember that before you talk your shit, staffers

Was the 2 billionth post one of your C-suite acting like an upset tween??

You would hit it sooner without banning prominent users for mild criticism of your benevolent overlord

Bluesky does this often by the way.

You can tell when your posts are only visible to you — they simply don’t appear for anyone else. That’s exactly what’s happening to my other account. Shadowbanning basically means the platform hides your content from others without telling you. It’s silent censorship, and it destroys user trust.

And you're gonna lose them all if this keeps up. mastodon.social is literally better

It’s Bluesky giving into fascism ahead of time. They don’t want to be a Trump target. Now they deserve to be.

wow @jay.bsky.team maybe people wouldn't be telling you to do your job if your team didn't make transparently bullshit decisions like this! we can all see the massive double standards at play! this site is so cooked... fucking racist libertarian tech bros ruin everything bsky.app/profile/jay....

Here's my line in the sand: If you're reading this & you're a - Fascist - Racist - Antisemite - Islamophobe - Transphobe then my posts are hateful to you, I hate you, & I hope that you find my blocking/muting of your odious content to reduce its spread disruptive to your Bluesky experience.

Someone threatened to "go postal" on me---even using my real name---and their safety team did nothing about it. Very selective application of the rules.

If Jay is going to ban everyone clowning on her, she's going to end up hosting an empty website

When mocking the dead results in more consequences then threatening the living...

That is horseshit. They very clearly were trying anything to defend their unjust ban. I’m sure they rewrote the TOS again. They do like to do that retroactively.

"We must ensure a safe and respectful environment for our users." Says site whose managers would--without hesitation--replace its userbase with 2012 4chan if they could.

Bluesky if the mod team cared half as much about Black people, trans people, and Palestinians as they do about the memory of the country's foremost bigot.

Now Doug there are circles in hell more reasonable than bsky moderation

this website is run by a racist, transphobic CEO that openly believes in shit as stupid as Roko's basilisk. So what's next?

Jay and Paul are fucking trash.

yeah this site is fuuuuuucked holy hell

FYI if you're a democract or generally just left go to mastodon.social, Bluesky is pretty much owned by right-wingers

Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason. His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side. Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

Could be any social media platform…

@pfrazee.com tell me what TOS link broke.

It's the age old right-wing grift of "We want a free society.... but not [you] or [you] and you're not allowed to say [that.]" It's not a free society they want. It's one that's comfortable to only them.

BlueSky is still just as gross as the other platforms, despite its owner staying out of the spotlight

Social media CEOs should learn that being the main character of their platform is not a good thing.