Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

  • chicken ( chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    3 days ago

    Bluesky is supposed to be decentralized in some way right? Does anyone know if whatever they’re doing to censor this genuinely prevents people from viewing them or not, how does that work?

    • ivn ( ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ) Français
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      3 days ago

      Well bluesky is made of different parts (AppView, PDS, …) that almost all have alternatives, it’s decentralised but in a different way, and better than ActivityPub imho.

      But the fact is that the vast majority of users still use the default parts made by Bluesky.

      What’s weird is that this censorship is not made with Bluesky’s moderation and I can see the posts and open the link just fine. I’m trying with the default app, AppView and moderation but an alternative PDS. But I don’t see how a PDS is supposed to change that, maybe it’s because I don’t have a US IP?

    • ItWasntMe ( Itwasntme223@discuss.online ) English
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      2 days ago

      From my understanding the software is able to be decentralized but from what I see most people don’t. They’re blocking it on their instance. So theoretically two different bluesky instances can share between each other but the bsky.app won’t.

      • ivn ( ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ) Français
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        2 days ago

        You can share about icepick on Bluesky, what is being blocked is clicking the link (because it goes through their redirect).

        Also their is not really instances on Bluesky, the decentralisation is more granular.