News: TechCrunch | Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/

"Simply put, if you’re on the official Bluesky app and #Bluesky (the company) agrees to censor something in your region, there’s no way to opt out of this to see the hidden posts or accounts."

The article goes on to tell users how to get around the censorship by using a third party app, but the fact remains that the censored accounts will not be visible to most users.

Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet | TechCrunch

Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this

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Einer von immer mehr werdenden Gründen, diese Plattform nicht mehr zu unterstützen. Auf meiner Node ist das Teil gesperrt.

♲ Kalle Wirsch 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱 - 2025-04-21 05:36:04 GMT

Dunkle Wolken am #bluesky
#zensur
[ Bluesky beschränkt aufgrund des Drucks der Regierung den Zugriff auf 72 Konten in der Türkei - Stockholm Center for Freedom ]
stockholmcf.org/bluesky-restri…

Centralized sites always cave to states

Confirmation: #Bluesky Now Blocking User In Turkey In Response To Turkish Demands
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Yesterday Arda Kılıçdağı @arda posted https://micro.arda.pw/@arda/114344261036182422 that #Bluesky had blocked a user in response to Turkish pressure, and published the purported notification.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114348331162291326

Apparently, as @f and @ssg mentioned, Bluesky has started honoring account restriction / takedown requests from Turkish government.

Bluesky has been a haven for Turkish leftist people, because both the government and X has restricted access to the leftist accounts.

After people accepted Bluesky as a safe place, their "limiting access of accounts to specific regions" is frustrating, and exhausting.

I've been promoting ActivityPub / Mastodon for years, and I'll keep on doing so.

#bluesky

People ask: "Why the preoccupation with #Bluesky? Lots of good folks are going there and love it."

@Daojoan does a great job of providing the long answer in this brilliant piece: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wants-you-trapped-the-open-web-sets-you-free-2/

But the short answer is that, by funneling users onto another unsafe centralized corporate platform, #Bluesky inhibits the construction of truly defensible public social media.

So now, when something happens over on Bluesky, the Fedi will not be ready to absorb a rapid mass migration.

more...

Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free

Big Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data.

^{Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)}

!Friendica Support is there a reason i can't set notifications for new post of friends on #Bluesky (via the plug-in)

like I can for friends that are using #ActivityPub?

WHAT?! 😮

#Threads just took a page out of #Bluesky’s book and implemented a custom feeds feature.

So basically, Threads now has Bluesky’s major selling point—which is choose-your-own-algorithm.

Man, I wish Threads would open source this feature so other #ActivityPub-enabled software could take advantage of this. But maybe someone else coughMastodoncough could make this happen.

Are there any #OpenSource services that would allow me to cross-post on the #Fediverse and on #Bluesky without creating a dummy account (as #Bridgy does)?

Ideally, I’m thinking about a client that supports both the #MastodonAPI and the #BlueskyAPI.

#Mastodon #API

Anyone used #Friendica? My wife @redbunhead.bsky.social discovered it when I told her about #Pixelfed.

I left #Facebook ~8yr ago & then #twitter for #mastodon. She’s on #FB & #Instagram & is exploring #BlueSky. We both just joined #Substack.

We’re looking for good decentralized social networks that aren’t owned by billionaires. I miss the FB feel sometimes, so any info on Friendica is appreciated.

Wife would also appreciate tips on choosing a Pixelfed server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica

free software for distributed social networks

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Let's try it again: This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more. That's #Sharkey, #Pixefeld (hence the pic), #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma... How far can it go?

Please share it, wherever you see it! #SocialMedia

@fediverse

Honestly baffled

#fediverse #twitter #bluesky

Ruszyła kolejna fala migracji z X/Twittera, więc dziś w #OkoPress przyglądam się alternatywom:
https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Co ciekawe, wszystkie – Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads – przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu twierdzą, że są zdecentralizowane. Mówię więc "sprawdzam", razem z @cwebber , @blaine i @ben .

Nie będzie dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, że #Bluesky i Threads mocno naciągają to "zdecentralizowanie." Ale sam fakt, że wszystkie realne alternatywy dla Twittera promują się decentralizacją jest znaczący!

@noam @support @Friendica Support

Fediverse users: Follow @bsky.brid.gy to allow #Bluesky users to find and follow you.

Bluesky users: Follow @ap.brid.gy to allow #Fediverse users to find and follow you.

#BlueSky #Friendica

@Friendica Support @Libranet Support
Can I follow friends on #BlueSky from #Friendica (and specifically from Libranet)? I haven't managed so far. I tried searching for their profile URL with /rss at the end, but nothing is found. I've seen some conversations about this, but couldn't find a way to make it work.

Thanks!

Just login and see for yourself how bad the content is. This is Instagram only with more words.

This is yet another social network for content and not for discussion.

Mark Zuckerberg ist unable to re invent Social Media!

But it is able to kill #Twitter and #bluesky ...

Sneak peek at the overhauled Agora client that will support logging in with either your #Mastodon, #Nostr, or #BlueSky account and seeing posts from the other two protocols!

Super awesome to see what’s possible thanks to amazing bridges by @alex and @snarfed.org and @cheeaun for the awesome Phanpy base to build off of

Constantly hearing ”got tired of Mastodon’s technicalities, Bluesky is simple and amazing”.

How we could design Mastodon to be more simple and have less technical-feel to it? UI is one thing, but that will not cut it all. I have probably said this before, but I am starting to believe no matter what we do we can’t ”win”. The narrative might need to change. 🤷‍♂️

#SocialMedia #Bluesky #Mastodon

If you like to torture youself, check out what people are babbling on Bluesky in real time about Mastodon: https://firesky.tv/?filter=mastodon

#Firesky #Bluesky #API #Mastodon #Gossip

Firesky

Watch every Bluesky post in real-time – filter the firehose

^firesky.tv

A simple #ActivityPub <-> #Bluesky interop MVP I don’t see mentioned a lot is the ability to fully oEmbed an apub/atproto post on its opposite platform. This would allow for a kind of quote-posting across networks.

If that could somehow be combined with a WebMention to inform me that my apub post has been shared elsewhere and vice versa, we’d have significantly greater cross-border connectivity than the status quo.

A Bluesky dev has responded with interest:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716#discussioncomment-7261438

Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub · bluesky-social/atproto · Discussion #1716

What are the current plans from BlueSky (the company) for interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub? We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fedive...

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#Friendica und #bluesky, hallo @Michael Vogel du schriebst was von bluesky in friendica, ich finde es nur nicht mehr.

Gesehen habe ich, dass ich bluesky einbinden könnte.

Wenn ich den Feed einbette ist er mit in meiner timeline, wie die Nachrichten von allen anderen Instanzen auch?

So wie ich es verstehe, könnte ich von friendica aus, zu bluesky posten, aber das wären dann alle Beiträge?

Danke vorab, für eine Antwort, sonnige Grüße in den Norden 😀

Hey, Fedi peeps!

I'm working on an opinion piece on what the #Fediverse, #BlueSky, and #Nostr can all learn from each other, in terms of features and capabilities.

What would you say is a strength of the Fediverse? What would you say is a weakness / could be better? 🤔

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