Bluesky Corporation have just started hosting and verifying the US agency ICE:

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Bluesky Corporation have just started hosting and verified the US agency ICE:

https://bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.social

In other words, Bluesky are collaborating with racist violent thugs and murderers.

(Bluesky Corporation were already hosting the White House (https://bsky.app/profile/whitehouse-47.bsky.social), the Department of War (https://bsky.app/profile/deptofwar.bsky.social), JD Vance (https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social), Homeland Security (https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social) etc. This is a long-term collaboration with Trump admin.)

(via https://mstdn.social/@Grutjes/115907687819628134 )

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@FediTips I can't remember who the first domino was, but it was certainly someone pro fash/trump, and trust and safety (the head of whom i'd already lost hope/respect for due to their behaviour on the platform), just shrugged and said "Hey, it'll make us bigger, i see that as a win!" (paraphrased), but that's when i burned my bluesky presence. it's never too late to walk away from a platform, especially pro-fash ones.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@avatastic

Bluesky don't seem to care about little people, they just want to make themselves big people.

[donchacale@mastodon.social]

@FediTips
whaaaaaaat?
well f blue sky then.

[phillipplays@retro-gaiden.com]

@FediTips Props to BS for supporting free speech on some level. I hope to see them keep the trend up!

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@FediTips have they at least stopped lying about being decentralised yet?

I stopped caring after I burned everything, but it's in the zeitgeist now so I'm curious.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@FediTips Hands up those who knew from the start ️

[tomwsmf@mastodon.social]

@FediTips

[magentarocks@mastodon.coffee]

@FediTips

That is a bit unfair to say they are 'collaborating'.

FYI they also host a moderation list that automatically blocks many of the gov accounts, including this new ICE account.

Bluesky is very flexible and gives you lots of options to keep unwanted accounts away from your feed.

I will add, they do not have private profiles, which is still a problem and much requested feature.

[blakasmoko@blorbo.social]

@avatastic @FediTips my bet RE: the first domino was how BlueSky Moderation gave Jesse Singal the five-star treatment, all despite outcry from trans users telling them that he’s a bad-faith actor and a serial harasser

a lot of other awful enshittification nonsense—e.g. constantly banning Palestinian accounts on-sight (even when proven to be verified), allowing the Trump regime to make tons of official accounts—seemed to all flow down from there

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@blakasmoko @FediTips that's a name which sounds familiar, so you may well be correct.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Dette indlæg er slettet!

[blakasmoko@blorbo.social]

@avatastic @FediTips yeahhhhh he’s a terrible dude; one of those reactionary centrists who helped make transphobic propaganda palatable to the mainstream media

and all of that effort on the mods’ part made no difference because he wrote up a post shittalking the site not long after seeing how many users blocked him en masse

https://www.transgendermap.com/issues/topics/media/jesse-singal/biography/

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@FediTips raise your hand if you did not see it coming.

Why i never wanted to see a bluesky bridge?

[jamesbritt@mastodon.social]

@FediTips

Just reported the account for violence. FWIW.

[colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art]

@FediTips Just fucking dump BS already, folks. It’s not gonna get better. Get your dopamine elsewhere.

[numb_comfortably@hachyderm.io]

@FediTips I really want to like Bluesky. A lot of good people there. But it's shit like this makes me come back here again and again.

[orci@mastodon.social]

@FediTips PREACH

[almonds@mastodon.mit.edu]

@FediTips I gave Bluesky so many chances, I was hopeful communities like Blacksky would flourish and push decentralization, but damn, it continually feels like a leftist honeypot there, just the successor of Twitter. Stuff like this, I worry Fedi is next for enshittifcation if servers like mastodon.social keep growing unchecked.

[arthfach@social.arthfach.com]

@almonds @FediTips The one nice thing with ActivityPub about resistance to enshittification is that things like GoToSocial exist. It's completely feasible for a normal user to spin up a single person instance and run it at a fairly low cost.

AT Proto stuff is complicated and expensive. I do server hosting for a business and am leery about touching all that. It's multi-layered for no reason, obtuse in documentation, and expensive as all get out to fully self host.

I think AP is a lot more resistant just because in comparison the barrier to entry is so low.