How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:
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@FediTips
This BSKY bridge is an opt in, you need to follow it and then it follows you back to bridge your posts. So blocking it is not really needed.
Btw. if the account already follows you, you can also remove it from your followers list.1. I have had several people ask how they can opt out, they bridged a long time ago and didn't know how to opt out. The post above is trying to help them as well as those who want to stop seeing Bluesky.
2. The bridge is only opt in for Fedi accounts, it's not opt in for websites. Some of my websites have been bridged by brid.gy without my permission or knowledge.
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@FediTips Bluesky users are doing the kidnapping and the killing? Wow... That's quite scary.
(sorry, I wasn't clear with "Most people" I meant: most users of both the Fediverse and Bluesky)
Honestly, take a deep breath, and think about what I'm telling you instead of reacting without really reading. I'm not trolling you, I'm trying to find a logic in blocking the bridge, and I don't find it.
@David @FediTips
It's not up to you or to anyone to find a logic in blocking it or not. A user may decide they dislike capital "E" and block any user with that letter in the name. Or profile pictures in BW. Or anybody from mastodon.social. And that's fine. Their feed is theirs to curate, in whatever way they see fit. Your or mine opinion on it is irrelevant. -
It's not sensitivity or "virtue signalling", it's genuine anger over what is being done to people. It is sincere concern for innocent human lives.
The entire reason I do my accounts and sites is because I am terrified of what is being done to vulnerable groups, and furious with those who are doing it.
If you disagree with this stance, you're free to unfollow me.
@FediTips
Where i disagree is that i think you are allowing your anger at a small group cause you to alienate a much larger group of people whom you probably have much more in common with then not in terms of ideology or goals.
I also think as with threads that it makes it harder for the average person to ever consider leaving a corporate social network when the alternatives might actively prevent them from being able to keep following people on the corporate networks. It causes more harm then it prevents, its better to block specific problematic accounts rather then blanket target an entire network because of the actions of a few powerful people who "own" those networks.
I dont think this is a disagreement worth unfollowing someone for, its just my personal opinion and i respect your right to your own opinions and views. -
It's not sensitivity or "virtue signalling", it's genuine anger over what is being done to people. It is sincere concern for innocent human lives.
The entire reason I do my accounts and sites is because I am terrified of what is being done to vulnerable groups, and furious with those who are doing it.
If you disagree with this stance, you're free to unfollow me.
@FediTips
Honestly i think its a useful PSA about blocking the bridges, even if i dont think its the best way, im sure there are a lot of folks who would rather go with a sort of zero tollerance policy and i totally respect that, its good to have such options. -
1. I have had several people ask how they can opt out, they bridged a long time ago and didn't know how to opt out. The post above is trying to help them as well as those who want to stop seeing Bluesky.
2. The bridge is only opt in for Fedi accounts, it's not opt in for websites. Some of my websites have been bridged by brid.gy without my permission or knowledge.
ok, but even if you block this account you still see bridges accounts from BSKY because the bridge is creating a user for each bridged account. It’s well described on brid.gy‘s Homepage.
So blocking the account helps to avoid your profile being bridged. Or: open the profile, select the … menu and choose „remove as follower“.Each site providing RSS can be bridged. This is done by a request from any Fediverse user. Not sure if you can avoid this at all besides not providing RSS.
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ok, but even if you block this account you still see bridges accounts from BSKY because the bridge is creating a user for each bridged account. It’s well described on brid.gy‘s Homepage.
So blocking the account helps to avoid your profile being bridged. Or: open the profile, select the … menu and choose „remove as follower“.Each site providing RSS can be bridged. This is done by a request from any Fediverse user. Not sure if you can avoid this at all besides not providing RSS.
Bridging an RSS feed that is described as an RSS feed is fine. That's what RSS Parrot does on the Fediverse, the icon is an RSS icon :RSS_Icon: and everyone can see what is going on.
What bridgy is doing is taking the icon of the website and not using the word "rss" in the description. It looks like the website has joined Bluesky.
"ok, but even if you block this account you still see bridges accounts from BSKY"
Not if you block the domain too.
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"Honestly, take a deep breath, and think about what I'm telling you"
Are you able to communicate with people without patronising them?
Your replies come across as troll-like, and if you keep replying in this fashion I'm going to assume this discussion isn't in good faith.
@FediTips Some Anglos find me patronizing when I disagree with them.
️ Are we having a discussion in good faith, though? I'm not so sure. You're not really answering any of my questions. And more often than not answering beside the point (I'm talking about Bluesky and you reply ICE, for example)
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Bridging an RSS feed that is described as an RSS feed is fine. That's what RSS Parrot does on the Fediverse, the icon is an RSS icon :RSS_Icon: and everyone can see what is going on.
What bridgy is doing is taking the icon of the website and not using the word "rss" in the description. It looks like the website has joined Bluesky.
"ok, but even if you block this account you still see bridges accounts from BSKY"
Not if you block the domain too.
@FediTips all ok, just explaining.
Can you block an entire domain as a user?
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@FediTips all ok, just explaining.
Can you block an entire domain as a user?
Yes, but it's not as powerful as an admin defederating the domain.
The user selects "block domain" on the profile of a user from that domain.
It hides all the domain's posts and accounts, and removes any connections you have with the domain (follows/followers).
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@FediTips Does blocking the domain still work if someone you follow boosts a toot from it?
It should hide any posts from that domain, even if they're boosted.
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@FediTips
So number 4 - blocking the bot - is the important one?Asking because Moshidon doesn't show a domain option.
If the option isn't in your app, log in with your server's website and do the blocking there.
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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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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @federatedsocialnews@channel.org Or you can just not bridge your account in the first place.
There were people asking how to block it who had bridged it a long time ago and didn't know how to stop it.
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@FediTips Successfully blocked. My next question is, how do I completely block Threads as well?
As far as I can tell, your server has already defederated Threads, so you don't need to do anything else!
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@FediTips There isn't any bridging to bluesky unless you actually follow the bridge account. Blocking to avoid bridging is totally useless.
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.
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If the option isn't in your app, log in with your server's website and do the blocking there.
@FediTips
That would take so much longer (just finding my password), and it sounds like its not really necessary. -
@FediTips
That would take so much longer (just finding my password), and it sounds like its not really necessary.It's up to you of course, but some settings are only available via the website so I'd recommend at least knowing how to access the website if needed.
The apps tend to have fewer settings and options than the website.
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Incidentally, what you say isn't true about websites.
My websites have been bridged to Bluesky by brid.gy without my knowledge or permission. They use my logos and everything, as if I'd signed up.
This is shitty behaviour by brid.gy.
As far as I'm aware you have to manually put your website and enable a bunch of stuff on your website in order to get your website bridged, it's not automated at all. I'm extremely skeptical that brid.gy would do this on their own. Is it possible some other person impersonated you? Did you contact them about it already? They've always been happy to delete profiles on request by the owner/s of the original site, no questions asked (other than making sure you're the owner I guess), even if the bridge was started willingly at first.
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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.
