Fuck bluesky.
Anyone using it over Mastodon to protest twitter is a moron.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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Obay but can I use mastodon in a way that let's me choke on corporate dick? Because choking on corporate dick is kind of my favorite thing. Whole reason inhere.
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Publicly available police reports.
I'm completely against doxxing. But there were public reports. That's censorship.
That’s also what many other social media would do because it’s easier to ban posting of personal information regardless of where it came from because you can’t trust moderation you outsourced to some third world country to do proper checks.
Example:
Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone's personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible.
Posting someone's personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule.
Dunno if Bsky has something similar but it’s more of a cost optimisation than anything so people are getting pointlessly angry at individual companies rather than the system which has this sort of behaviour as a guaranteed outcome.
can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not "cost optimize" it away.
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A competent programmer could write an algorithm to knock out the low hanging fruit, like public Facebook pages, in about five minutes.
Might take me a couple hours. Someone genuinely good and familiar with the space would have been done in less time than it took to write this comment.
Can't imagine why they would do that, or why they would want to extend protections they politically must extend to marginalized people who take real precautions to assholes who know they'll always be protected by power.
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ill never understand how jack fucking dorsey is regrifting the internet AGAIN with a centralized censorship engine.
fuck this dude entirely
I'm pretty sure he has nothing to do with bluesky. i think he's into nostr now.
He founded Bluesky, but after helping Elon buy Twitter, he left.
Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn't good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.
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shouldn't really surprise anyone. Didn't their CEO like several months ago pretty much defend a known fascist/tranphob on the platform and essentially told people who complained about it to "not post" out of protest? Also Bluesky is extremely quick to bend to the whims of whatever government body makes demands. They were one of the first sites to quickly implement age verification in the UK I believe.
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Oh no, surprise, censorship on a centralized platform. No one saw that coming.
Devil's advocate:
You can either protect everyone's privacy, or you can protect no one's.
Doxxing is a privacy issue. It's not "okay if it's someone you don't like". I'm sure if the tables were reversed and people on the right had doxxed a bunch of left-leaning people, the left would be up-in-arms about it, demanding that it be removed and for the people who posted it to be suspended. But because they're far-right, it's suddenly okay?
I hate the far-right, don't get me wrong. But get off the high-horse. Companies can either protect everyone from doxxing, or they can protect no one from doxxing. There's no in-between just because the people being doxxed are people you find repugnant.
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PSA: Sharing that information was almost certainly a GDPR violation in the EU. It may also have been a criminal offense under German law (§126a StGB).
Please gtfo with those nasty facts. This is Lemmy.
Sharing publicly available information is a GDPR violation? Wouldn't that be on the person who originally made the info public.
GDPR works like copyright in that regard. Just because someone publishes something, doesn't mean you may re-publish it.
This data is especially problematic since it is about people's political views. That's defined as sensitive data. By default, it is a violation to even create or store such data at all, even if you kept it private. You could only do that legally if you benefit from specific exceptions.
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He got banned for doxxing? Is that right?
I never trust anyone who says "I got banned from ____ for saying _____". I've never seen that claim match the reality of what happened. I hope he posted proof somewhere at some point
*I don't use Bluesky
I don't think sharing publicly available documents constitutes doxxing
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There are no bans on nostr. And we desperately need more antifa to drown out the 3 white supremacists we can't ban
Oh my, what's that thing? I tried nostr earlier this year after reading about their tech side and finding it interesting, but then I met their human side and... it was shocking (I lack words to properly explain the feeling). Most posts were, in order of amount of occurrence: cryptocurrency praising like it's 2015, bashing on leftism, some weird humor I didn't understand (maybe it was better not to understand), anti-government stuff, racist memes and a (maybe lost) user that posted some beautiful photos they took as amaetur photography practice. I literally stopped scrolling and uninstalled it when I saw a post claiming that pasteurizing milk is a genocide and an act from the government against us (the other users were even endorsing it!)
Definitely a good technology overrun with cultists. Better content curation tools & more users will fix it
Heads up, I sometimes post screenshots of replies like this as examples of how nostr looks to outsiders, because those cultists act confused about why no one joins
Did you say screenshot? I better fix the typing errors and dress my finest clothes!
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You have a bunch of white supremacists because there are no bans...
If you're a giant piece of shit saying horrific garbage you're probably going to flock to the platform where no one can do shit about it...
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I strongly doubt they were banned for posting a police report.
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