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

bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.s…

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

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

(via mstdn.social/@Grutjes/11590768… )

Grutjes

2026-01-17 00:49:19

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Wow. Bluesky has just welcomed and verified ICE.

For anyone still thinking Bsky is a real alternative to Twitter: No, it's not.

Mastodon is. Bsky is just X at its infancy.

#ICE #Bsky #Bluesky #fascism

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avatastic

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.
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Arthfach 🐻

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.

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haui

I know its mean but i really love the feeling when I told everyone before something happens.

Usually its for years that i tell people and they're usually increasingly mean and arrogant. Sometimes they're even outright sadistic.

Thats why today, i dont have any empathy left for people who have shat on others for years for them asking them to do the right thing. Just reap what you've sown.

And here's another one: please stop shitting on socialists in the fedi. We are right, always.

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Fedi.Tips

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"

foxnews.com/politics/dems-run-…

Dems run to the Bluesky block button as Vance trolls them on their own virtual turf for solid week

Vice President JD Vance joined liberal-dominated Bluesky one week ago and has repeatedly trolled Democrats on their preferred social media platform.
Emma Colton (Fox News)
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Fedi.Tips

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

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

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)

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber On Building A Better Social Ecosystem

Wired Senior Writer Katie Knibbs interviews Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the burgeoning social platform and its future.
WIRED
@Big Belgian Bopper 🔻🐸
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Fedi.Tips

One gets the feeling that Bluesky just wants to be a big player and they don't care how they do that. They're just another big tech corporation in other words.

All that "no more caesars" and "billionaire proof" rhetoric they used a while ago was apparently just bullshit. Their centralised structure means they could very easily be bought out by billionaires and every staff member would get rich if it happened, as they are paid in Bluesky shares.

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Fedi.Tips

@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:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/…

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.

Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code

From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J.
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Fedi.Tips

"it's good for people to know what their government is saying".

They're masked thugs kidnapping and murdering people in the street, persecuting the relatives and publishing bigoted lies to try to justify it all. They're not even investigating the kidnappers and murderers.

The Trump regime is not giving out neutral info, they're publishing extremist propaganda and lies. Platforming these hateful lies is just helping the kidnappers, thugs and murderers.

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Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲

I've been using it for a good while now, and I haven't found reason to distrust it... yet, at least. In my experience, Bridgy will *only* bridge your posts and replies if you've specifically opted into using the service by following @ bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. If you HAVE opted in, you can stop it by blocking that same account - or if you use Bluesky, Mastodon, or Pixelfed, you can log into the bridging interface for that account at fed.brid.gy/login to disable bridging that way. Also while you are opted in, it will *only* bridge posts that are marked as "Public" - if the privacy level is set to anything else, it ignores the post since it can't match that privacy level on Bluesky.

They have extensive documentation posted at fed.brid.gy/docs, and since it's an open source project, you can view their code at github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed.

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
fed.brid.gy
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