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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.
  • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
    971·
    20 hours ago

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

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      472·
      17 hours ago

      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”.

        • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 minutes ago

          That’s an awful comparison.

          It’s like email.

          You can have a gmail.com address, and send and receive emails between yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses without issues. Nobody really cares which provider you chose, and if you really want to, you can register your own domain and host email yourself.

          If this doesn’t land, then the person you’re talking to probably has never used a computer.

          • fractal618@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            That’s where I’m not 100% sure. Either each instance maintains a copy of the public square, or there is no public square each piece of content is hosted on one instance and viewable from other instances

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      351·
      19 hours ago

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

      • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        62·
        18 hours ago

        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
      010·
      15 hours ago

      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
        61·
        15 hours ago

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

  • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    10 hours ago

    Does this include FEMA staff as well? My partner works for that agency and they’ve been bleeding staff for years now, can’t imagine getting dragged into this chaos not speeding that up.

    • glitch1985@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      No from what I saw it’s just focused on ice, cbp, and uscis. Plus it’s not really anything sensitive just names and other basic information.

  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1001·
    21 hours ago

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

    • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
      74·
      12 hours ago

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

      • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 hours ago

        This isn’t “liberal” shit, this is right leaning centrist shit, I know you’ll argue “you just described liberal” but that’s just your biases speaking, these are the same centrists that were okay with Hitler coming to power in the 1930’s, same exact attitudes, same exact apathy.

        Also to add to the “don’t be so smug” message, we see the same exact kind of apathy from those who claim themselves to be Far-Left, Progressive, Socialist, and Communist, just a bunch of shit heads who can’t get past their own self interests in order to unify against a fascist threat, or multiple fascist threats. They would rather sniff their own egotistical farts then raise one finger to help society change incrementally because it doesn’t yield results fast enough for their entitled asses.

  • Blibly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    352·
    22 hours ago

    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
      31·
      17 hours ago

      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
      27·
      15 hours ago

      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.

      • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        Freedom of speech is not an obligation for individual people, companies, universities, etc to provide a soap box and megaphone to fascists and bigots.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    21 hours ago

    “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
      7·
      17 hours ago

      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.

    • Zos_Kia@jlai.luEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      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.

    • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      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

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

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

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        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…

    • chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      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.