Apparently #Bluesky may have now started to take down accounts in obedience to demands by the Turkish government.
This post on Mastodon Arda Kılıçdağı @arda from a few hours ago purports to contain a screenshot of a notice by noreply[at]bsky.social informing a user that their account has been "restricted" because "the legal authority in Turkey" informed them it "violates local laws in Turkey".
micro.arda.pw/@arda/1143442610…
EDIT: Now Independently verified the account is blocked in Turkey SEE BELOW
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.
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Mastodon Migration
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •It was only a week ago that tech media reported on a significant exodus from X to Bluesky by Turkish citizens fleeing censorship on that platform:
techcartel.net/bluesky-surge-t…
If the above post is accurate, perhaps #Bluesky is not the digital refuge they were seeking.
Bluesky Sees User Surge as Turkish Citizens Flee X Censorship
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Mastodon Migration
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •In response to a cautionary post on this subject in another thread just received this response from @arda constituting verification of this matter.
micro.arda.pw/@arda/1143480854…
In the post it is demonstrated that the subject account is visible from non-Turkish IP addresses, but when accessed from Turkey is blocked with the below screenshotted message.
The post also references a Turkish media article: sonmuhur.com/blueskyda-ilk-san… and Reddit discussion: reddit.com/r/Turkey/comments/1…
Bluesky'da ilk sansür! Türkiye'de ilk kez bir hesabın engellendiği ortaya çıktı
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Mastodon Migration
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in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •Mastodon Migration
in reply to Johnny Paints 🌈 • • •william.maggos
in reply to Mastodon Migration • • •assuming it's true...
so that account could resurrect itself using #ActivityPub and then bridge and the owners/staff of #bluesky could explain that they had to follow the law and ask everyone to bridge so they can avoid this problem in the future, right?