> If you don't want to verify your age, you can still use its services - but it won't serve you porn or let people send you non-public messages.
> I think that's pretty reasonable.
You lost me right there. Blocking DMs because of draconian age verification is not reasonable. There's nothing inherently problematic about DMs. Someone can be a creep in public just as easily as in DMs.
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bArray
> Your Direct Messages. We store and process your direct messages in order to enable you to communicate directly and privately with other users on the Bluesky App. These are unencrypted and can be accessed for Trust and Safety purposes.
Your private DMs being unencrypted means that they are semi-private DMs. E2E should be enforced everywhere.
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greatgib
This proves that bluesky sucks at least as much as Twitter as it is still a walled garden...
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irusensei
Bluesky doesn’t sound very decentralized to me.
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swiftcoder
Kudos on going through the whole public-facing process. It may be a bit pointless, but it is a good way to unearth process gaps
petercooper
I have the same issue. DMs coming in, but no way to see them. I'm not bothered by it and would rather it just be disabled, but they could make them read-only (or even just show the author) while disabling replies (which should still adhere to the OSA).
jayd16
> If services don't want to provide moderation then they shouldn't let their younger users be exposed to harm.
Isn't that moderation?
latexr
> Frankly, it is baffling that such a well-funded company takes this long to answer a simple request.
What is frankly baffling is that after the past two decades someone would still believe more money equals better customer service, or that VC-funded companies care even the smallest bit about you.
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jay_kyburz
> "Asked to provide my country of residence and to prove my account ownership by send an email from the address associated with my BSky account."
Hey, when somebody sends you an email asking for personal data, how do you verify that the person making the request is the same as the person who uses the email.
Is the email "From" field safe to trust? Can it be spoofed?
Is it legal to assume that the controller of an email address is the same as the person who created the account using the email address?
If a users inbox has been compromised, can somebody just use GDPR to get all the DMs and data from every other service despite not having passwords to those services?
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tonyhart7
I thought bluesky is decentralized tweet so we don't have to deal with verification like this?????
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Rover222
"We store and process your direct messages in order to enable you to communicate directly and privately with other users on the Bluesky App. These are unencrypted and can be accessed for Trust and Safety purpose"
Sounds about right for a platform created specifically because another platform stopped censoring things.
> If you don't want to verify your age, you can still use its services - but it won't serve you porn or let people send you non-public messages.
> I think that's pretty reasonable.
You lost me right there. Blocking DMs because of draconian age verification is not reasonable. There's nothing inherently problematic about DMs. Someone can be a creep in public just as easily as in DMs.
> Your Direct Messages. We store and process your direct messages in order to enable you to communicate directly and privately with other users on the Bluesky App. These are unencrypted and can be accessed for Trust and Safety purposes.
Your private DMs being unencrypted means that they are semi-private DMs. E2E should be enforced everywhere.
This proves that bluesky sucks at least as much as Twitter as it is still a walled garden...
Bluesky doesn’t sound very decentralized to me.
Kudos on going through the whole public-facing process. It may be a bit pointless, but it is a good way to unearth process gaps
I have the same issue. DMs coming in, but no way to see them. I'm not bothered by it and would rather it just be disabled, but they could make them read-only (or even just show the author) while disabling replies (which should still adhere to the OSA).
> If services don't want to provide moderation then they shouldn't let their younger users be exposed to harm.
Isn't that moderation?
> Frankly, it is baffling that such a well-funded company takes this long to answer a simple request.
What is frankly baffling is that after the past two decades someone would still believe more money equals better customer service, or that VC-funded companies care even the smallest bit about you.
> "Asked to provide my country of residence and to prove my account ownership by send an email from the address associated with my BSky account."
Hey, when somebody sends you an email asking for personal data, how do you verify that the person making the request is the same as the person who uses the email.
Is the email "From" field safe to trust? Can it be spoofed?
Is it legal to assume that the controller of an email address is the same as the person who created the account using the email address?
If a users inbox has been compromised, can somebody just use GDPR to get all the DMs and data from every other service despite not having passwords to those services?
I thought bluesky is decentralized tweet so we don't have to deal with verification like this?????
"We store and process your direct messages in order to enable you to communicate directly and privately with other users on the Bluesky App. These are unencrypted and can be accessed for Trust and Safety purpose"
Sounds about right for a platform created specifically because another platform stopped censoring things.