i think too few people are aware yet that #bluesky is rapidly becoming a japanese social network
as far as I can tell the growth of the network in the last few days (close to 1.5m new accounts, 50% network growth) is highly dominated by japanese accounts
I think the best analogue to understand bluesky is how misskey relates to mastodon
@laurenshof didn't that happen for a while with Mastodon? I seem to remember a few really big Japanese instances back in 2017 or so when I first used Mastodon. I don't know what the current status of those instances is.
Yep, very analogous to Mastodon 2017. They’re still around — a crypto guy bought them a couple years ago — but basically unmoderated, one of them is so widely blocked for hosting lolicon (legal in Japan but not in the US) and other CSAM (not legal in Japan but apparently not strictly enforced) that it’s not even listed on fedidb
@jdp23 @ricmac @laurenshof That is the perk of a fan run instance. No out of touch bullshit.
That is also not really true for the U.S. In Free Speech Coalition v Ashcroft, prohibitions were ruled unconstitutional. I've said this before.
Also, what is a country practically to do? Shut down every site which doesn't take things down immediately? The government is a blunt instrument and isn't going to help you here.
The biggest problem, I think, is that they seem to talk to precisely no one, not even free expression oriented people, and so, they're out of touch.
@jdp23 @ricmac @laurenshof When that country takes "action", they don't do what you think they ought to do.
They just go around harassing people doing photoshoots, talking about how porn is evil, over apply the law in ridiculous cases, and all while not being any more effective. It's probably best they continue to act constitutionally, than make a big mess.
I think that conflating art with abuse here is probably a mistake though. Probably best to focus on their moderative practices, if you reckon there is a problem with that.