> Additionally, through our Trusted Verifiers feature, select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.
As someone who believes in equal access and privilege, this is just horrible. "Trusted Verifiers" - how does the bsky team decide which orgs can be trusted? One could argue that this is worse than Twitter. And of course, the echo chamber is going to get worse.
It's the same as "Trusted flaggers" under the EU's DSA. Nobody trusts them. Just like when non-democratic countries call themselves "Democratic Republic".
> It's the same as "Trusted flaggers" under the EU's DSA. Nobody trusts them. Just like when non-democratic countries call themselves "Democratic Republic"
Trusted flaggers literally need to publish transparency records and are approved by orgs in EU countries under elected governments.
If you say that is all bullshit and EU is a North Korea and North Korea is a shining example of democracy then you should probably remove your dig at DPRK's self naming;) Because your own comment measures non-democratic countries by the standard of democratic countries. if you want to be wrong be consistent at least
Trusted flagger can flag anything they want and it will be removed in any EU country even though it's not illegal there. The list includes organizations like "REspect" which is infamous in Germany for removing criticism of politicans leading to police raids and fines for people (so called "hate speech"). This "private organization" is literally funded by the government.
>EU is a North Korea and North Korea is a shining example of democracy
Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.
Are you talking Twitter or X? X is in many ways much closer to TruthSocial than any other platform currently is [1] [2]. The only thing that grounds X a bit is the (old) Twitter user base that’s still on there, which is and has been declining.
It’s also interesting that your view of progressive might be different than mine. In this current age, I guess even advocates for DEI are considered too “progressive”. Which (in my opinion) relates more to a shift of right to far right, which shifts the balance, and people mistake it for what are really just centric viewpoints being “leftist”.
To me, BlueSky is the best current alternative to what Twitter originally was.
It’s not exactly what I meant. I meant that any form of DEI is now considered “too progressive” by some, which has to deal also with right shifting to far right, which in turn shifts what is generally considered centrist.
Ultimately, DEI can mean thousands of things, and what is “progressive” left or “extreme” right to some may be centrist to others.
Yeah, I’d consider checking in again. In the very beginning, some viewpoints used to be more dominantly represented than now, as many new people have joined BlueSky from X since.
As someone who believes in equal access and privilege, this is just horrible. "Trusted Verifiers" - how does the bsky team decide which orgs can be trusted? One could argue that this is worse than Twitter. And of course, the echo chamber is going to get worse.