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by joshuaturner 431 days ago
My understanding of that situation was that they could either remove that content from being accessible on Bluesky (the client) or have the site blocked entirely.

They landed on country-specific moderation, which is all publicly accessible and documented, allowing countries to label specific posts/contents and have them hidden in the country. Again, this is only on the Bluesky client; other clients can ignore the 'hide' label if they choose.

This is an article that details it pretty well and links to a few tools that allow you to view everything hidden by any country moderation team: https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-b...

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What are these "other clients"?
You have pure clients like https://deck.blue/

And then "soft forks" like https://deer.social/

Am I supposed to type my bluesky password into some random website?

Why would there be no 2FA options, like when using https://element.io for a homeserver?

You make an "app password" which is basically an API token.

They've recently added OAuth, but since it's pretty new, a lot of older projects haven't moved over yet.

2FA exists but only for emails right now, more to come. https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/1071

Okay that makes sense, thanks! And yea, I meant OAuth, 2FA has really nothing to do.
So have the site blocked entirely. Let censorious despots build their own great firewalls.