Jay permabanned a prominent Black user (who was using Blacksky as their PDS) for pointing out that choosing to start following yet another noted transphobe was perhaps not a great look this week.
People subsequently realized that as it stands right now, Blacksky has no true independent existence - a ban on BSky is a ban from all alt instances as well.
Ben Evans
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2025-10-06 19:21:14 UTC
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