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The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.
    • WappleFF27@feddit.onlineEnglish
      11 days

      It’s a corpo, you know where they stand even if they haven’t fully played their hand.

    • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
      11 days

      I don’t know why people are surprised. Bluesky always billed itself as twitter before musk, and twitter before musk was full of liberals.

  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11 days

    Why others government employees are public, but ICE has some special treatment? Is it because they are really trump’s gestapo?

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11 days

      yes exactly, remembers renees killer they quickly put him in “witness protection” and hid them in another state to avoid doxxing. avoid potential prison, doxxing by family members, and from employers.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
    11 days

    People wanted a new Twitter and just completely ignored Mastadon. 🙄

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      Yeah, but joining an instance is so hard guys. How am I supposed to know which one to join? What if I join the wrong one? The human brain was never meant to know more than one domain name.

      The whole Internet should just be one single website so I don’t have to think. But I will complain about how only one rich guy owns that website, but I’ll do it on that website since it’s the “public square”.

      • fractal618@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 days

        I think it’s better to explain instances as phone booths or conference rooms.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      Well yeah, they wanted a new twitter, not something different and potentially better.

      • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11 days

        I remember Mastodon gaining a lot during the Elonification of twitter. Doesn’t seem like it’s all bad. I don’t want to be even more doom pilled.

    • jumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11 days

      any mastodon instances off the top of your head that have as little or less censorship as Twitter? Because I can think of some that beat Twitter in certain areas but none that beat it in all

      • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
        11 days

        No because I don’t use it. I never liked the Twitter format. 🤷‍♂️

  • Blibly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Bluesky was cool for like 3 days. Then they let JD Vance start posting there and immediately wiped out all their cred. Now its just pre-Elon Twitter, and that place already sucked ass before he bought it.

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      Bluesky never had a policy against letting fascists join. There’s been a fascist community there since day 1. If you only noticed when JD Vance joined, you weren’t paying attention.

    • LitRomney@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      11 days

      Why would you want them to censor people? Demanding they censor people is what gives them permission to do bullshit like this where they censor posts and information.

      The fact that so many leftists have been convinced that censorship is good is actually scary. If you are pro-censorship then you aren’t a leftist.

      Unless Bluesky openly stated that they are a private community where only leftists are allowed then you shouldn’t be asking for censorship.

  • Nedlymandico@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Seriously? Now it’s just corporate democrat shit. So much for counter culture.

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      It was founded by crypto grifters with backing from Jack Dorsey. It was a shithole the day it went online. It was never countercultural in the slightest.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    “Our Community Guidelines protect people’s safety and privacy by prohibiting the unauthorized sharing of personal information and other content that could pose safety risks. Because the files include the email addresses and phone numbers of individuals, shared without their authorization, we are blocking links to the dataset.”

    I understand where they’re coming from because they shouldn’t pick-and-choose who gets doxxed, the info in the leak hasn’t been vetted it could contain random innocents, if violence happens and someone was enabled by info on their platform they could be held liable etc. etc. Like I get it, I do, and fuck off for censoring on the side of the fash, but at the dame time I get the feeling they might not be absolutely 100% sincere in removing this from their platform since the block message leaves the URL on it’s own line as easily copied text…

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11 days

      Oh my God, they put the URL on the page. Sharing a screenshot of it is totally fair game, and still spreads the URL, while giving you the plausible deniability of only posting it to criticize Bluesky.

      Still, fuck Bluesky for this. I told people that joining “Twitter cloned by cryptobros” was a bad idea, and they didn’t listen.

    • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11 days

      Website doesn’t even work for me just typing it in now. I wonder if DNS providers are blocking it or whether their infrastructure got taken down

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 days

        Given the content in question, it could be anything from a DDOS to an old-fashioned hug of death to fascists peeing on the server rack. It was up earlier, at least. Might just spin up a VPN…

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11 days

        Yesterday I was able to access it, then I wasn’t, then I was. Feels like it was overloaded.

    • Zos_Kia@jlai.luEnglish
      11 days

      It would be stupid for them to keep it up. I don’t understand the point of this kind of thread. You don’t mix things up, and you don’t mix your illegal (though totally legitimate) activism with your day to day communication tools. It’s just a reckless thing to do and they’d be stupid to not draw the line.

  • canttakeitwithyou@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11 days

    And this is why you don’t turn to Bluesky. If they’ll censor this, they’ll censor anything.

  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 days

    Yeah a little too late. That shit is all over the place, and it’s a relatively small file. It’s not like a 45tb file that most people wouldn’t want to download in the first place

  • America@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11 days

    Boosky. And not as in autumn festive wordplay. I’m expressing distaste for corporate social media.