Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians.
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@GroupNebula563 @gabboman @alexia
"secondly, some things aren’t worth arguing over"
Fascism is worth arguing over.
Calling me a "smug cunt" for trying to warn against fascism is just... there's no words. What are you thinking?
Do you think this is some kind of childish tech vs tech dispute like Mac vs Windows?
I run these accounts purely to try to stop the spread of fascism and hatred. Any tech that helps in that fight, I promote. Any tech that hinders that fight, I warn about.
@GroupNebula563 @gabboman @alexia
If you think I've got a tech wrong that's fine to discuss, I do discuss things regularly and I often message developers to find out more. But hateful name calling and patronising and avoiding mentioning the Nazi elephant in the room is not the way to do it.
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If Vance joined a Fediverse instance, and the instance admin didn't kick him off, other instances would defederate that instance.
But this isn't possible on Bluesky because it's centralised.
On Bluesky you can subscribe to a Maga block list. It's a seamless experience and automatically blocked him for me before I heard he was there.
Here on the fediverse I encounter more homophobia than on Bluesky and fewer people speak up about it sadly.
Here I'll stumble upon admins of an instance defending a moderator who blocks LGBTQ hashtags and quotes homophobes in their profile because of 'free speech'.
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On Bluesky you can subscribe to a Maga block list. It's a seamless experience and automatically blocked him for me before I heard he was there.
Here on the fediverse I encounter more homophobia than on Bluesky and fewer people speak up about it sadly.
Here I'll stumble upon admins of an instance defending a moderator who blocks LGBTQ hashtags and quotes homophobes in their profile because of 'free speech'.
It's not enough to block these yourself.
Fascists don't care about people who block them.
Fascists care about people who don't block them, because they can radicalise them into believing and spreading hateful lies about vulnerable minorities.
I've tried to give an example here: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112581263140051643
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YIKES
For me it would be such a day of JOY if i can ban hammer JD Vance from Mastodon
And yes, I would him right away, he's a fascist and those are not allowed on my platforms
@stux @FediTips @mastodonmigration I mean, very pedantically speaking, Trump is on Mastodon, no? As in, truth dot social is a mastodon instance with the branding replaced?
But I don't think it federates at all, and if it did, it would be very high in the fediblock lists.
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@stux @FediTips @mastodonmigration I mean, very pedantically speaking, Trump is on Mastodon, no? As in, truth dot social is a mastodon instance with the branding replaced?
But I don't think it federates at all, and if it did, it would be very high in the fediblock lists.
@ainmosni @stux @mastodonmigration
Trump's media org stole Mastodon's software code in order to build their own centralised platform.
I wouldn't personally count them as part of Mastodon.
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Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social
"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)
More
: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.
(via @mastodonmigration)
p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
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@daemon_nova @alexia @FediTips
Precisely. I saw a number of their moderators dismissing and gas lighting the concerns of LGBTQ people in my feed
I don't see that on Bluesky. In fact when there is a trans /homophobic user there, they are dealt with swiftly by the community. Here there are often crickets, or when marginalized groups bring up concerns there is much defensiveness.
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@daemon_nova @alexia @FediTips
Precisely. I saw a number of their moderators dismissing and gas lighting the concerns of LGBTQ people in my feed
I don't see that on Bluesky. In fact when there is a trans /homophobic user there, they are dealt with swiftly by the community. Here there are often crickets, or when marginalized groups bring up concerns there is much defensiveness.
@alchemistsstudio @daemon_nova @alexia
"I don't see that on Bluesky. In fact when there is a trans /homophobic user there, they are dealt with swiftly by the community. "
Vance's first post is all about eroding trans rights, and Bluesky are sending emails to Fox News telling him how welcome he is.
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If Fosstodon hosted Vance, you can bet it would be defederated by people who are on the fence.
I would personally defederate any instance that hosted Vance, including mastodon.social.
I've also spent lots of time trying to discourage large instances even existing, I run a site at https://fedi.garden and account at @FediGarden to promote good smaller instances.
@FediTips @alexia @FediGarden so, is it not a big enough issue that they've platforms rightwing extremists as moderators on their instance, and then defended both of them? I personally felt like that's reason enough to defed, but plenty of instances are choosing to wait and see -
@FediTips @alexia @FediGarden so, is it not a big enough issue that they've platforms rightwing extremists as moderators on their instance, and then defended both of them? I personally felt like that's reason enough to defed, but plenty of instances are choosing to wait and see
Some did defederate Fosstodon over that, some took the approach that the admins and moderators had changed and did a "wait and see" because of the change of leadership and staff.
But there is an order of magnitude difference between that situation and hosting fascists who have direct control over the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
It should be obvious that Vance is an instant defederation.
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@GroupNebula563 @gabboman @alexia
If you think I've got a tech wrong that's fine to discuss, I do discuss things regularly and I often message developers to find out more. But hateful name calling and patronising and avoiding mentioning the Nazi elephant in the room is not the way to do it.
@FediTips @gabboman @alexia honestly, fair. I will probably be moving away from Wafrn in that case provided they don't get rid of Bluesky integration. I only have one major account over there and it already has an equivalent on another instance that I find works quite well. Thanks for the insight, FediTips!
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p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
p.p.s. No, Vance wasn't banned by Bluesky. That's why I included the link in the original post so you can see he isn't banned.
Bluesky had blocked the account briefly because they thought it was fake, but when they found out it was real they unblocked it, verified it and sent an email to Fox News saying that Vance was welcome on Bluesky.
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@FediTips @gabboman @alexia honestly, fair. I will probably be moving away from Wafrn in that case provided they don't get rid of Bluesky integration. I only have one major account over there and it already has an equivalent on another instance that I find works quite well. Thanks for the insight, FediTips!
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i mean thats why I blocked vance. And same reason I block fascists on fedi.
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i mean thats why I blocked vance. And same reason I block fascists on fedi.
my issue is that feditips is missrepresenting things intentionaly.
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my issue is that feditips is missrepresenting things intentionaly.
@gabboman @GroupNebula563 @alexia
I can assure you I'm not. I am terrified about what is going on.
I don't care what protocol is used as long as it makes federation accessible and controllable by anyone including very-low-cost grassroots instances that can communicate without relays.
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It's not enough to block these yourself.
Fascists don't care about people who block them.
Fascists care about people who don't block them, because they can radicalise them into believing and spreading hateful lies about vulnerable minorities.
I've tried to give an example here: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112581263140051643
You've literally responded to nothing I've brought up.
Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there. On the fediverse there is a moderator on a bigger server who has blocked lgbtq/trans related hashtags and quotes a homophobe in their profile.
If you are trying to protect people from fascism, and hopefully homophobia I hope you are calling out fosstodon too. I didn't stumble on jd Vance on BS, but stumbled on them dismissing LGBTQ people here
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You've literally responded to nothing I've brought up.
Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there. On the fediverse there is a moderator on a bigger server who has blocked lgbtq/trans related hashtags and quotes a homophobe in their profile.
If you are trying to protect people from fascism, and hopefully homophobia I hope you are calling out fosstodon too. I didn't stumble on jd Vance on BS, but stumbled on them dismissing LGBTQ people here
"Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there."
Having 70% of a platform to talk to is a tremendous amount of power. Even if it was only 10% that would still be millions of people to potentially radicalise.
It's the people who don't block him but listen to him that are the problem. He isn't speaking in good faith, he's trying to deceive people into doing bad things.
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@ainmosni @stux @mastodonmigration
Trump's media org stole Mastodon's software code in order to build their own centralised platform.
I wouldn't personally count them as part of Mastodon.
@FediTips @stux @mastodonmigration I did say that, didn't I?
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@FediTips @stux @mastodonmigration I did say that, didn't I?
I've edited my reply
