Yes, at calckey.social, we blocked mastodonapp.uk. This was not an arbitrary decision.
We received multiple reports of transphobia from mastodonapp.uk, with no action being taken from their mods. For the safety of our users, many who are transgender, we had to initiate defederation.
This was not a choice we made lightly, but our community’s safety comes first.
I’ve known this for awhile: the reason Twitter funded Bluesky is because they were sick and tired of being held liable for all the kinds of crap that gets posted to their platform.
Twitter no longer wanted to be in the publishing business. They wanted to be in the algorithm business.
How to do this? Force people to host their own content.
If you're trying to sign up for https://calckey.social, you may have noticed there's a notice saying that registrations are disabled above the registration form. This notice is not accurate.
It is actually a bug, and I've filed it as one in the repo:
Every single time I think my social media software isn’t ready to be shown to anyone, I just remember that #Bluesky hasn’t fixed their notifications and doesn’t even offer DMs—and 50,000 people use it, and the Tech Press believe it’s the greatest thing ever invented.