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Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

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190 points amichail | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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hntempacct99 ◴[20 Nov 24 15:16 UTC] No.42194606[source]▶
From what I have seen using Bluesky this isn't true at all. It's brutally censored, even more than Twitter was in 2021. Or are there other relays and appviews I can use that aren't? Is there a comprehensive list of Bluesky infrastructure that isn't run by Bluesky themselves (excluding a PDS)? Or is it totally centralized for now?
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nick_ ◴[20 Nov 24 15:19 UTC] No.42194628[source]▶
What brutal censorship have you observed?
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okeuro49 ◴[20 Nov 24 15:23 UTC] No.42194662[source]▶
https://bsky.app/profile/realbabylonbee.bsky.social
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gr__or ◴[20 Nov 24 15:27 UTC] No.42194713[source]▶
There is a cultural divide on where you stand wrt transphobia. The default appview is indeed not down with it, where Twitter is ofc very down with it.

The protocol is ambivalent towards it, so if you seek hate, you could host your own. I'm very fine (happy even) with the bsky team not being invested in that side of history.

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gigatree ◴[20 Nov 24 15:47 UTC] No.42194953[source]▶
And what if you just espouse the normal view that all of history & 97% of people currently on earth hold?
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1. dpkonofa ◴[20 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42195137[source]▶
Which view is that? I highly doubt that there's any view that fits the criteria you just posited.