Trouble Brewing at Bluesky

[ysabetwordsmith]

A number of issues at Bluesky have many members looking for a different venue, some of whom are moving to Dreamwidth. Watch for those folks and invite them here to learn more about this platform. If you have friends who are leaving Bluesky, encourage them to consider Dreamwidth -- it's not a close match but does have good privacy and moderation tools, and you can use it for short-form posting if you wish. This post contains resources about how to use Dreamwidth. You can find your Bluesky friends here. You can also export your Bluesky content to a CAR file.

Is anyone here familiar with Bluesky? We could really use a "Dreamwidth for Bluesky Users" guide post.


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Bluesky users bash CEO for not banning journalist Jesse Singal

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

Bluesky to verify ages under Ohio pornography ID law
The law that goes into effect at the end of September 2025 requires websites to verify the ages of their Ohio customers before allowing them to view content "obscene or harmful to juveniles."

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users


Resources

ATproto Protocol
Bluesky and various other sites use this, which means you can leave Bluesky but still access your content from those other sites.

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Ah, jeez; I suppose this means that Dreamwidth will be looking into a different host for their Dreamwidth Status updates.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Possibly. I don't know if they care about the politics; some people don't. I'm not a fan of drama myself. However, any time a platform has multiple issues at the same time, that's a worrisome sign that it may collapse and disappear. So it would be useful to have alternatives. Hmm, that would make another good post: alternatives to Bluesky. Ideally, I'd like a Bluesky user to write that; I don't know much about it.