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I would be very curious how exactly this is being said and if it is just simply stating an "opinion" or if it is being used as a way to attack people and purposefully start a fight.

If it is the later 2, than them being "eager" is a good thing since that just feeds to toxicity and is a major reason that people have been pushing to move away from Twitter in the first place.

Even the first one I can understand since I really struggle to figure out why you would feel the need to repeat this if it was not an attempt to stir up an argument.

> I would be very reluctant to store anything important there.

Regardless of the reason, you should always be reluctant to store anything important on a platform you don't own. Focusing on this particular topic as the reason however is really just trying to start an argument that does not need to happen.

Obvious trolling attempt aside, on the topic of uploading files to third party platforms, people should have really learned their lesson when uploading files to Discord and using that as a CDN and Discord completely killing that and hundreds of thousands of links by adding timeouts to the files hosted on their servers. It's really annoying because there are a bunch of mod servers that refuse to put their files anywhere else and so many links were completely lost to the ether. Now you need to join so many servers just to get files and it gets very annoying very fast. Please just use a file hosting solution or make a website.

I actually did not know about what happened with Discord. I mean I think its still a cool concept but no reason to rely on it.

Especially when its so easy and cheap to store something in S3 and stick a domain in front of it for example.

They said in their official statement[1] that it was to "block malware" but clearly they did not want to serve file traffic off-site. And yes I am very much in favour of using S3 or at least some file hosting service to dump the files where it's their job to do so. I am not sure why they were all using a chat application's file hosting as a CDN with gleeful abandon.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-will-...

whats wrong with an argument?

Some people want to live their lives without having to justify their existence to strangers every time they appear in a public space. It's exhausting. There are plenty of spaces where you can have those arguments. It's OK to have spaces where those kinds of arguments are not welcome, too.

This is not an argument or a discussion. That would require two parties willingly engaging. This is someone trolling and simply being hurtful/aggressive for kicks. I don't know if the BlueSky moderators are banning such accounts but it's an insta-block from me.

There is nothing wrong with an argument, but as the other person said this is not really being posted just for the sake of having an argument. On topics like this neither side cares what the other has to say because they have made up their mind.

This isn't like saying "Mexican is the best food". Which sure may get a bit heated but at the end of the day is a personal opinion argument.

Attempting to "argue" about someone else's life, who's existence doesn't impact you in the slightest, isn't an argument that deserves to happen. At the very least not in a public space and not without expecting the repercussions of it happening.

> Bluesky has demonstrated a strong eagerness to censor content based on political ideology

Can you demonstrate where/when this has happened? I've been on Bluesky since 2023 and yet to see any concrete examples of people getting banned for saying anything like that.

I've seen plenty of examples of users getting a ton of pushback from others when saying something like that, and ending up on block lists that others can (optionally) subscribe to, but never seen anyone permanently banned over it.

Would be curious if you have any sources or publications to backup this claim?

thats because thats a dogwhistle that people post to start fights. Its the posting equivalent of an 11 year old saying 'im not touching you!' and its good to ban it. its annoying.

Bluesky is decentralized and has no central algorithm, so I'm not sure where you're getting this misinformation from. I'm happy to be shown otherwise.

A PDS can refuse to host someone's data, an App View can refuse to serve content or specific users.

But, being decentralized, they cannot "remove them from the platform" depending on how we define this phrase

Being removed by Bluesky can certainly happen, in the sense that most people who are unaware ATProto is different from what came before, think about these things.

I too would like to see such claims backed up. Too many flags being planted to stake out ideological territory...

While I definitely don't agree with the GP here, Bluesky is not decentralized in any meaningful way, but they aspire to having a "credible exit" if Bluesky the company falls into the wrong hands.

https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lbkecsk3...

Bluesky is not decentralized; they have tons of centralized infrastructure, including all the identity management stuff.

If what you are saying is even true (a quick google showed it's not), this seems like it's likely a specific case of moderation and not censorship.

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