How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:
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"You present your advice as neutral"
I absolutely do not.
I am against fascism and bigotry.
My entire point for doing all my accounts and sites without pay is to try to fight the hatred.
Neutrality at a time like this is obscene.
"It ia obvious that you're not neutral even though you present yourself that way."
Except... they never have? And tbh I think u know that, David, you're just weirdly offended that they're not running their account the way you want them to.
This reply guy stuffs doesn't do you any favors, BTW.
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@FediTips Seriously, that doesn't make a lick of sense.
You're not blocking Bluesky (you can't, it doesn't communicate with the Fediverse), you're blocking the bridge.
What is the purpose apart from virtue signaling?If a Fediverse account is not bridged, no one on the Bluesky side can see it.
Bluesky accounts bridged into the Fediverse allow them to be seen on the Fediverse. If you don't want to see a Bluesky account in the Fediverse, don't follow any. As simple as that.
If…
1. you have not blocked the `bsky.brid.gy` domain
2a. are following someone who boosts a post from the `bsky.brid.gy` domain OR
2b. you share a server with someone following `bsky.brid.gy` accounts, and one of those counts posts to a hash tag you are following…then you may see a `bsky.brid.gy` post in your feed, without you explicitly following those accounts.
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How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:
1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
2. Click ⋯
3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts
4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to BlueskyYou may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.
If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.
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It should hide any posts from that domain, even if they're boosted.
@FediTips I wonder why I'm still seeing them. I've triple-checked. Oh well.
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@FediTips I wonder why I'm still seeing them. I've triple-checked. Oh well.
Could you link to an example of a post you're still seeing? It might help in tracking down the problem
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Could you link to an example of a post you're still seeing? It might help in tracking down the problem
@FediTips It was sixteen hours ago, so I can't find the posts. But I remembered the name and went looking, and found the user whose posts had me thinking about this. I was about to paste it here when I saw it was a mastodon.online account. I'm certain the boosts I saw were from a bluesky-bridged account from the same user. Could that have something to do with it? Same post origin point also has a Masto account which is not blocked?
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@FediTips It was sixteen hours ago, so I can't find the posts. But I remembered the name and went looking, and found the user whose posts had me thinking about this. I was about to paste it here when I saw it was a mastodon.online account. I'm certain the boosts I saw were from a bluesky-bridged account from the same user. Could that have something to do with it? Same post origin point also has a Masto account which is not blocked?
If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.
Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?
Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.
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If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.
Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?
Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I blocked brid.gy at instance level.
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If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.
Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?
Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.
@FediTips No, I am absolutely certain the post I saw was a boost from that user's bridged account. I just can't find that accpunt now, perhaps their individual block is finally working, now that I unblocked and reblocked last night. But it should still come up in searches, right?
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services I blocked brid.gy at instance level.
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@FediTips No, I am absolutely certain the post I saw was a boost from that user's bridged account. I just can't find that accpunt now, perhaps their individual block is finally working, now that I unblocked and reblocked last night. But it should still come up in searches, right?
@FediTips Ah! Searched again, half an hour later, and this time it came up!
This is the account that made me think of this, with some spaces added:
@ brenttoderian.bsky.social @ bsky.brid.gyI have no problem with this user or his posts; I usually agree with him. He's just the example of a boosted post that came to my feed yesterday that I think shouldn't have.
I'm on Tusky right now, so I can't see domain blocks, but it does show that I have bsky.brid.gy muted, so even if it were only that, I shouldn't see those posts, right?
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Does it say "mute domain"? If so it may be the same option with a different name.
Blocking domains is not quite as powerful as a block but more powerful than a mute, so there is some disagreement over which word to use.
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@ConnyDuck @Billie @FediTips Thanks for clarifying!
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How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:
1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
2. Click ⋯
3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts
4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to BlueskyYou may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.
If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.
@FediTips man blockiert natürlich „nur“ die Brigde, denn eigentlich sind das Fediverse und bsky getrennte Netzwerke, die nichts miteinander zu tun haben.
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I had several people ask me how to stop bridging, because they had bridged a while ago and didn't know how to stop it.
Also several people asked me how to stop seeing bridged posts.
So, I've posted instructions on how to do both these things.
@FediTips But to stop bridging people just need to unfollow the bridge account. They don't have to block anything.
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@FediTips But to stop bridging people just need to unfollow the bridge account. They don't have to block anything.
The official instructions on the brid.gy website say the following:
"How do I opt out and remove my site or account?"
"If you're on the fediverse or Bluesky, and you've opted in but now want to opt out, block the Bridgy Fed bot user for the network you want to opt out of. For example, on the fediverse, block @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy"
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@FediTips Ah! Searched again, half an hour later, and this time it came up!
This is the account that made me think of this, with some spaces added:
@ brenttoderian.bsky.social @ bsky.brid.gyI have no problem with this user or his posts; I usually agree with him. He's just the example of a boosted post that came to my feed yesterday that I think shouldn't have.
I'm on Tusky right now, so I can't see domain blocks, but it does show that I have bsky.brid.gy muted, so even if it were only that, I shouldn't see those posts, right?
Do you have an example of a particular post that you saw boosted after you had blocked the domain?
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So did I
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The official instructions on the brid.gy website say the following:
"How do I opt out and remove my site or account?"
"If you're on the fediverse or Bluesky, and you've opted in but now want to opt out, block the Bridgy Fed bot user for the network you want to opt out of. For example, on the fediverse, block @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy"
@FediTips Oh. OK. It wasn't like that when I checked it back when I joined the bridge; you'd just need to unfollow the account and bridging stopped, or at least they said so. I guess they found out the process was flawed and decided to go for a more radical and bullet-proof alternative? Dunno.
So yeah. Sorry. My bad.
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Do you have an example of a particular post that you saw boosted after you had blocked the domain?
@FediTips No. But I blocked it (I mean, before unblocking and reblocking yesterday evening) months ago, and nothing changed.
