Cory Doctorow explains the problems in Bluesky’s privacy policy:
Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) pluralistic.net
It’s a long and interesting article. Doctorow knows his way around privacy laws and terms of service.
As things stand, Bluesky has very bad terms of service that every user who creates an account has to subject themselves to. In particular, Bluesky’s ToS contain a “binding arbitration” waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them.
It’s a bottleneck problem. You want to use Bluesky, you have to have an account with them, which essentially means it’s their account and data to do whatever they wish with it. And even though Blue Sky is pretty cool and Jay Graber is pretty awesome, their investors aren’t necessarily good news, and when they want more money, we’ll have the same old problem we always have.