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Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place (www.psypost.org)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Bluesky, which they view as more useful, welcoming, and aligned with their goals.

For now, maybe.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    For real. They just can't stop banning people.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    And it's alredy full of trackers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thankfully you can just use another instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I cannot find any other instances, do you happen to have a list or could point me in a direction? (I know you could host your own instance with this: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds )

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a few, not too many at the moment because most people just host a 1-person pds.

    I can't find a post I remember seeing with a bunch of them listed, but I can say that I remember that blacksky runs their own pds and relay, and it's open signup

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Can you elaborate on their use of the ban hammer of injustice?

    I don't use it, so I'm unaware of any dramas, but mass banning sounds interesting.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They banned a bunch of people including Jessie Gender (now reinstated) for mild criticism of the Harry Potter author.

    They banned people for posting old (public domain) short films for fictional violence.

    There was another ban wave when people were criticizing the hateful words spoken by that one guy who was violently killed.

    There's an explicit promise of an upcoming wave of noncon artists. (I'm personally not a fan of such art but don't think they should be banned)

    Some people have been reinstated, but the explicit focus on limiting speech has a real chilling effect.

    I'm positive I've missed some from longer ago.

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