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

sarah@sosial.link

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Maybe admins should consider blocking the BS bridge for user safety?

troi@techhub.social

@FediTips Mixed feelings here. This is more nuanced that Twitter. I left that because of Musk's hypocrisy more than his allowing junk on the platform, but I'm a free speech absolutist. I'll be watching my bsky account to see if I notice a change. Does moderation and tone bend in favor of any one side?

mrgr@mastodon.social

@FediTips Anders formuliert, offizielle US Behörden wie ICE würden im Fediverse gesperrt? Oder wie ist dies zu verstehen? Wie sieht es zum Beispiel mt dem FBI aus? Und dürfte Trump, der Präsident der USA, hier nicht online sein? Arbeitet eine Platform mit einer Organisation oder Person zusammen, deren Konto sie in ihrem Netzwerk hostet?

prism@infosec.exchange

@FediTips "long term collaberation" is a bit dramatic IMO, they just signed up. I doubt there was much communication on the subject.

ikuturso@mastodon.social

@avatastic the current talking point you hear constantly is that Bluesky may be centralized but ATProto isn't As if that invalidates the point...

@FediTips

feditips@social.growyourown.services

@prism

They didn't just sign up, Bluesky is hosting them and verified them.

Bluesky does ban accounts, they could have banned ICE, and/or refused to host ICE, and/or refused to verify them. Instead they rolled out the red carpet.

They also emailed Fox News to tell them JD Vance was welcome on the platform:

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky," the company told Fox News Digital in an email response"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-run-bluesky-block-button-vance-trolls-them-own-virtual-turf-solid-week

feditips@social.growyourown.services

p.s. The US Department of Homeland Security has pinned a video where the CEO of Bluesky says Trump is welcome on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social/post/3m3g7vwkokk2i

This is a genuine clip of the CEO, it's from an interview on Wired and the original source is https://www.wired.com/video/watch/the-big-interview-jay-graber

It is now very clear what Bluesky stands for, they are welcoming fascists and fascism, even when those fascists are kidnapping and murdering people.

(Thanks @bigbelgianbopper for pointing this out)

emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper EWWWWWWW

elliseclipse0750@defcon.social

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper I mean to be realistic, BlueSky was a side project for Jack, the creator of Twitter. I would not imagine in any way that BlueSky wouldn't be a platform for Fascist if Twitter was already a platform for Fascist.

How did you think Elon Musk bought it? He was welcome there. They rolled out the red carpet.

fuckfetish@fuckaas.space

@troi @FediTips "Does moderation and tone bend in favor of any one side?"

Ask Lexi Alexander, the Palestinian filmmaker and activist who was banned from Bluesky just recently. Or the hundreds of other Palestinians banned off the platform.

Hell, ask the trans people who were banned for criticizing Jesse Singal.

Or ask Link, the Black leftist who was banned for being critical of Bluesky staff with no recourse.

blakasmoko@blorbo.social

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper

pinning that clip to their profile just screams “well MOM says everyone here has to play with me”

bitch-baby schoolyard bully behavior

gunchleoc@mastodon.scot

@MrGR @FediTips Trump ist doch längst im Fediverse - truth.social läuft auf Mastodon. Sie föderieren aber nicht, da sie eh schon prophylaktisch nen fetten Fediblock in die Fresse bekommen hatten. Es gäbe aber schon genug Naziserver, mit denen sie föderieren könnten, wenn sie wollten.

feditips@social.growyourown.services

@gunchleoc @MrGR

Truth Social stole code from Mastodon and pretended they had written it. Mastodon gGmbH had to send them a legal threat to get them to admit it was stolen code:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/

Truth Social has no connections to any other server, I wouldn't personally call them part of the Fediverse as they don't Federate. And as you say, they'd get blocked if they tried.

feditips@social.growyourown.services

@Vonskinnback

If you go to @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy and click ... and then "Block domain" that should block all bridged accounts from your feeds.

If you have trouble going to the account I mentioned, try going to https://mastodon.social/@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy when you're logged into your server's website.