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Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

so apparently, bluesky has started honoring government takedown requests from turkish government. i wonder what the nature of measures taken are. do the accounts or the content get taken down or do they get geofenced, @jay.bsky.team ?

fatih kadir akın@fka.dev

“Sen de mi Brütüs” cc @ssg.dev

Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

it looks like they are restricted only from turkey. the account in question looks fine from other countries, or through VPN. as @fka.dev mentioned, how different PDS situation will unfold in these cases is a bit mystery. bsky.app/profile/gokh...

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Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

country-level content moderation on bluesky is seemingly configured on the client-side. i wonder if this is just a perf optimization, or a third-party client can bypass regional restrictions?

mutlu kuru
@mutlukuru.bsky.social

ssg abim özet geç bize kısaca kapattırabiliyo mu kapattıramıyo mu? bir de ekşi sözlük konusu sana soruluyo mu artık onu da bilmiyoruz ki aldın başını gittin. .dev de çok iyiymiş bu arada. parasını versek @mutlukuru.dev.sol alabiliyo muyuz? onu da merak ettim. aydınlatırsan hoş olur.

Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

after a quick test with the help of turkish users, it turns out country-level restrictions in bluesky are only implemented in the official app currently, and they don't apply to third-party apps if they don't implement them.

autumn@aeshna-cyanea.neocities.org

It should be very easy to test! Lots of third part clients including web based ones such as skychat.social

Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

the risk bluesky is facing by objecting to government censorship requests is a blanket ban from that country. @jay.bsky.team probably considers this a fair compromise to keep bluesky accessible from an authoritarian country as it doesn't have enough international recognition to make a stand for it.

Sedat Kapanoğlu
@ssg.dev

this obviously stress tests the decentralization claims of bluesky. if everyone's using bsky.app and the country-level bans are implemented on the client-side, how is decentralization relevant? if we start using alternative clients, how do we not fall into malicious honey pots?