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

[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.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@FediTips Not that surprising, sadly. Bsky was always going to go this way. As a centralized for-profit platform, they really had little choice. Bsky was never more than "Xitter with fewer Nazis" anyway.

[greatlaketrout@noc.social]

@FediTips

Blue sky should be unfederated and all ties cut.

[jargoggles@kolektiva.social]

@avatastic @FediTips
People get stars in their eyes when they see massive user counts and it blinds them to the fact that it's actually a giant liability.

[parzival@hachyderm.io]

@FediTips

Why don't these government agencies do Bluesky right? It's not supposed to be xxx@bsky.social, it's supposed to be xxx@ice.gov. That's the beauty of the atproto.

[iveyline@mastodon.social]

@FediTips Cancelled my BlueSky account last year. It wasn't my space. That's why I'm here - and happy!

[sashin@veganism.social]

@FediTips The CEO gave a warm welcome to Vance

[sonjavan62@mastodon.nl]

@ZenHeathen @FediTips

[ellaw@exquisite.social]

@FediTips they had some bigot on team, and kept silence about it.
That was when I deleted my account there. And it seems it was just a start...

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@numb_comfortably
I miss some of the people for sure, but the app, ugh, hot trash
@FediTips

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@arthfach @almonds @FediTips This. And even if the big instances enshittify there’s nothing to stop people hopping on smaller servers run by others which block the big instances, getting right back to business within the day. It’s rarely much different from where you’ve come from, it’s just hopping between modular apartments.