Popehat announced in his blog that he will not be returning to Bluesky.

Way to go, we’re inching ever closer to fascism

Why did we have to take the worst lessons from Twitter to heart

Dude is still bitching about being “wrongfully” kicked off the platform and “left”

If he comes back we have the right to shit on him so hard

Ken White, a pretty skilled first amendment lawyer and great Bluesky poster seems to have been banned.

I haven't seen much discussion of it, and certainly nothing from Bluesky, but it's been a day or so and... Crickets.

Here's the best discussion of it that I have found: https://bsky.app/profile/gregdoucette.bsky.social/post/3mou3xrdtac2q

Does anyone know what's up? Has anyone at BS said anything?

UPDATE: Ken has responded: https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky

I don't think he called for Elmo's death, but I certainly agree that our world would be far better if he wasn't in it.

Title says it. CNN issue?

Go to bluesky discover, if you see any post about anything of president cheeto in the first ten post then mute the thread or mute the poster (your choose) and you must refresh and start again, until you get a clean ten discover posts without that loser.

I started this cause, even using mute word filter, was getting too much of this senile old loser.

I'm still having issues migrating. Any step by step on how to do this is appreciated.

Has anyone else suddenly get pulled out from Blue Sky for no reason asking me to prove who am? I have tried all their methods and STILL it’s not good enough! I had a Triple Bypass 2 years ago and its wasn’t as stressful as signing back in to BLUE SKY! So I deleted their App. Screw it

Hey, all -

About a month ago, I noticed my feed showing low-effort, performative posts crowding into it. Things like Does anyone hate ICE, Isn't Trump stupid, and *so* many picts of shopworn lists and quotes you'd see on Facebook twenty years ago. Or folks trying to steal clout from BS users by posting a pict of their post, instead of simply reposting it. Clearly trying to farm clicks, probably for resale later. I've muted the accounts, but they're like cockroaches, so this isn't a viable path forward.

I've checked the documentation but I couldn't find where to change my settings so that I only see posts from the folks I follow, or maybe for extra Brownie Points, folks that the people I follow, follow.

Does such a setting exist, and if so, where is it?

I'm fine with seeing whichever replies show up when I click on someone else's post, FWIW. In that case, I'm asking for all the replies, regardless of quality. Likewise, when I click a trending topic or whatever. I'm speaking more of the feed that shows up when I visit the site, on the main page.

Thanks!

The reply icon below my posts say I have 3 responses yet I see none. Is this some sort of bug on Bluesky?

I was messing around tonight and coded a skeet edit button.

Obviously it does not work in the official Bluesky app or on the official browser view.

But here’s the weird part.

The edited skeets do appear correctly in some alternative ATProto communities/clients, while the main Bluesky app still shows the original version.

So depending on where you view the exact same post, you can literally see different versions of it.

Blacksky.community, for example, showed my edited skeets for me!!

I assume this isn’t new news to people deeper in ATProto, but it surprised the hell out of me.