"Bluesky" has really stupid rules and stupid Mods.

Bluesky is a social media platform that tries to be an “alternative to Twitter” – and for a while they were alright, back when they were still an “Invite Only” platform (to even be able to create an account, you needed an Invitation Code from a friend, this kept some of the Normie Bullshit out of the website). Eventually they opened the doors to the general public so that anyone can create an account, no “Invite” necessary. Normies flooded in and started bitching about “why so many furries?” (cuz we were some of the first to migrate to Bsky, thus naturally Bsky had already developed a pretty sizable Furry Population before the Normie Rush) and even worser still, Bsky started hiring “Fiction Equals Reality Freaks” as their Mod Staff… so now a platform that was once a safe place for Furry Kemono Cub and Human Shota Artwork has spun around and done a total 180…

Why does every fucking place on the internet eventually start doing this crap?
I will never understand the whole “Fiction Equals Reality” mindset…

I don’t give a flying shit about what the laws say in France or Canada or UK or Australia –

A fictional drawing is NOT comparable to actual factual CSEM (ch-ld s-xual ab-se material) of a REAL PERSON WHO ACTUALLY EXISTS IN REAL LIFE… to take something as serious as that – and compare it to cartoon drawings of Sonic and Tails screwing – makes zero fucking sense (and it’s also demoralizing and belittling to actual CSA victims like myself)… But that is the world we live in today, apparently.

Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Artistic Expression is evaporating faster than water on a hot sidewalk during a summer day in triple digit weather (Fahrenheit, dammit! Wtf is Celsius? I’m an American, we use F not C on our thermometers!).

People seem to think that drawing something on paper is the exact same as doing it in real life, or that if you draw it on paper, you wanna do it for realzies.. I personally don’t think that’s the case, I don’t think Fictional Artwork has the magical subliminal power to make you go out and do shit you weren’t ALREADY considering doing… and on the offchance that some idiot DOES go that far, here’s a wild idea! – Let’s try to keep the blame strictly on the person who did the crime, and not whatever drawings he was looking at and the artist who made them!!!!

It’s like the whole “Satanic Panic” against Dungeons N’ Dragons back in the 1980s. I’m pretty sure DND didn’t MAKE anybody do anything, but it was an easy scapegoat, just like Rock Music and Rap Music, so it got the blame…

If someone reads the Sheath & Knife comic series, and they go out and S.A. somebody, I don’t think it’s fair to put the blame on Harmarist for that… the art and the artist didn’t MAKE that person do those things, he chose that himself.

Banning the artwork and punishing the artist with jail time or legal fines for something imaginary that they drew with a pencil isn’t going to do a gawd damn thing to stop Real Life Crimes, and it doesn’t help the Victims… The only thing it does is make some grouchy Twitter Dork feel like they’re “making a difference in the world” when they really aren’t. You aren’t doing JACK DIDDLY SHIT to help real life victims of CSA, you’re just being a big dumb annoying Fiction Cop about someone else’s art… trying to apply Real World Morality to cartoon p0rn… it’s stupid. It helps no one.

I’m disappointed as hell to see Bsky going in such a stupid direction, but I’m not surprised…

The artistic spaces for Cub Furry and Feral Furry are vanishing at a rapid rate, every other country besides the United States has stupid ass laws on the books that make it so that if you draw anything the government doesn’t like – you go to jail… regardless of whether or not you’ve ever actually done anything IRL. It’s fucking crazy… downright scary too.

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Their Mods using the word “problematic” is already a bad sign to me…

I mean… Who even USES that word besides Tumblr / Twitter People?

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“Breaking The Law” by posting fictional cartoon drawings?

Pffff, hahahahaha…. fuck off.

Y’all were fine with it 4 months ago, why the sudden change?

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I am tired of all this bullshit. Look, I spent hours and hours on my submissions to bluesky.. and what do they do. They ban me and label me a pd. It’s irritating and all garbage. I look at things like project 2025 and I see the future…

Yeah, they got me too. It’s all bullshit.

I don’t understand starting twitter clones to just be worse than twitter…

Yeah, I mean Twitter fucking sucks and it’s broken as shit thanks to Elon trying to turn it into his little Cash Crop (YOU HAVE TO PAY TO USE THE DM’S, THEY ARE A FINITE RESOURCE, YOU CAN RUN OUT THEM) and his other shady ass ideas, like putting features that used to be FREE behind a Pay Wall… and yeah, I get banned for slight infractions… but at least Twitter never really seemed to give a shit about Furry Cub or Shota Artwork… and Bsky going in this direction just makes me pissed off and disappointed…

The entire fediverse is dumb and stupid. Period.

I knew this would go downhill fast lol

A lot of cub artists were fleeing to Bluesky to just get banned immediately. Bastion and others tried to.

Trash.

Bluesky isn’t a federated network. It was supposed to be but they never released the hosting suite so its centralized.

It’s ridiculous that these rules were slammed down on folks nearly as soon as it was no longer invite only.

Well, you guys can always join itaku.ee

iirc it’s federated in Mastodon

@Superdepas
There’s no way to join it’s network or share posts… It has proprietary code edits, like Truth social, to keep it segregated.

Alright.

I still see some cub artists around

Just openened “BEE-SKEE-GMAIL-MOD-PEARAX-BLANKED.jpg” now, for some reason the website wasn’t loading and had to open through Tor. That really looks like a post made by a ordinary Twitter mundane person, really unprofessional, a moderator taking it’s own opinions instead of clarifying based on the website rules even it’s stupid now. The argument is also really stupid, art has a powerful influence as a RATIONAL and CRITICISM tool, not as a “guy saw X so he did X” thing, it’s way over complex that, their narrative is just clearly infantilizing adults.

It looks like they are now o:
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

So we need a cubfur instance then!

It’s like, they used furries for their network to grow and get popular, as as soon it got popular, they said “We don’t need you anymore, get the fuck out, we’ll deal with the rest of you soon”.

I agree

Furries typically tend to be first on the scene when it comes to new social media platforms. I remember the first time I set up a Live Journal account, the person who invited me / told me about it was of course another Furry, and there were absolutely TONS of furries using LJ for their blogging and networking purposes.

Then LJ gradually lost relevance and Myspace was the hot trendy thing for a bit, until Facebook. Ahhh, but Facebook had a caveat – they started to enforce a “Real Names Only” policy, which meant that if you had a silly name like say “Kitsune Baka” – the FB mods would flag your account and scream THAT’S NOT YOUR REAL NAME, WE WANNA SEE A PHOTO OF YOUR GOVERNMENT I.D. OR WE WON’T LET YOU BACK INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

That was the first sign to me that Anonymity was dying. Facebook wants everything you do to be tied to your real identity, and Furries typically do not like using their Real Names online… way too easy to get stalked that way…. There was – at one point, an attempt by someone to create a Furry clone of Facebook called “Fur Gather” but it wasn’t around for very long, the project runner eventually called it quits and just gave up on it despite a fair number of people showing interest.

Twitter – as far as I know – never tried to pull a Facebook and demand you use your actual real name, but ever since Elon took over it’s just gotten worse and worse. Bluesky has tried to swoop in and fill the void, but as soon as it got popular enough for the Normies to join it, they’ve added more and more stupid restrictive rules to satisfy the migrating influx of Normies and their silly beliefs about “Problematic” Fiction….

TeleGram is alright, but that’s not really a Public Social Network, it’s more akin to a fancier version of ICQ for the modern times… TeleGram also has its own set of problems, like the fact you are REQUIRED to sign up with a Phone Number, which may as well be the same as handing over your I.D. to Mark Robo-Zerg…

Also, once BlueSky got popular it began to had CSEM issue aswell, like, there were people sharing actual real CP and exploiting underage users. And also children creating accounts to post their own sexual pictures on their own (not going to discuss if that’s right or wrong, but fact is that’s also illegal in most countries) because of parents who don’t regulate their kids internet usage. This led to catch media attention on this platform and BlueSky brought more moderators to enforce their rules. But they enforced it really bad in the way you know (action = sexuality, real-life = fiction, etc), and in time it weighted in the entire MAP comunity and aswell shota/loli/cub/abdl community and they officialized it.

Asking about it here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/discussions/148

Once I found out it’s not really your own instance, they might have full control of rather you have contact with the main server or not.

You should ask without informing much the intention, asking only the technical thing. Very possible they could just close your question after also you could receive much harassments.

Checking the source it seems very simples, but it depends in many libraries, mostly AWS stuff and AT Protocol libraries. Worth checking the AT Protocol libraries it uses. But seeing as it’s, looks like it uses a server as your own, with your own admin base.

It seems pretty boring https://box464.com/posts/bluesky-pds/

Recently on BSKY – There was a MASSIVE ban wave that targeted anyone who likes or interacts with accounts posting fictional cartoon Anime Loli/Shota Art as well as Cub Furry Art… BSKY Mods treat this FICTIONAL hand drawn cartoon content as if it is the exact same thing as CSEM, on a legal level and a moral / ethical level (and I have personally gotten emails sent to me from Bsky Moderation that says in their own words how they feel about this kind of artwork).

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_sigh …. Look, I understand the need for a burgeoning social media platform like Blue Sky to put the clamp down on people who share ACTUAL ILLEGAL MATERIAL, as it presents a huge liability issue for them…. however, 2D FICTIONAL CARTOON ARTWORK IS NOT THE SAME AS CSEM…. for an image to qualify as CSEM, it MUST meet the requirement of either being (A) virtually indistinguishable from a real photographic image of a real human person, or (B) HAVE BEEN BASED ON A REAL PERSON….

Lewd cartoon rule 34 art of Tails and Sonic screwing does not count.
Lewd drawings of some non-existent fictional “loli” character do not count.

In France, Canada, UK, Australia? Yeah, it counts THERE, not in the U.S.A.
(but after the Project 2025 crap, who knows?????)

Ashcroft VS Free Speech Coalition says “persons of ordinary intelligence can tell the difference between a photo of a real human person and a FICTIONAL CARTOON DRAWING.”

But BSKY clearly does not care about Laws or Logic, instead they go by feelings and opinions and by whatever the loud screeching voices of Twitter and Tumblr tell them is “problematic.”

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Taking a “scorched earth” approach to this problem really is not fair.

Lumping people who draw or share FICTIONAL CARTOON ART in with actual criminals who trade genuine CSEM – IS NOT FAIR.

Many of the people whose accounts were affected RECEIVED NO EMAIL EXPLAINING THE REASON THEIR ACCOUNTS WERE TERMINATED….

SOME of the affected users were able to send an email directly to Bsky Moderation and file an appeal to get their accounts reinstated, but with an email sent back to them that basically accused them of being in cahoots with actual criminals who trade actual images of real human people… and a threatening “we’ll be watching you to see if you screw up again.”

So yeah, you file an appeal and get your account back, but if you happen to like a drawing that the BSKY Mods think is “problematic” – POOF, YOUR ACCOUNT GETS NUKED AGAIN…. so you’ll be walking on eggshells and trying your best NOT to click “like” on any kind of cartoon artwork that might be considered “problematic.”

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On top of this, Bsky is also doing Ghost Ban type regulation…
Comment too fast? Ghost Ban! Say the wrong words? Ghost Ban!
And YOU won’t know that you’re Ghost Banned, unless you go
hop on a secondary alt account to go CHECK your main account….

UGH!!! … They want to be Twitter so badly that
they are copying all of the BAD aspects…

I was thinking about creating a BlueSky account, but I guess not then. I had earlier left X/Twitter, of course. Well, they are all the same, and Internet is better without any social media :P