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

[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.

[moxxi@mastodon.social]

@FediTips

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@moxxi

Yup 😞

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper did I call it or did I call it lol

[twiglet@social.vivaldi.net]

@FediTips @IceCubesApp is there a domain block option in the app?

[knowmadd@mastodon.world]

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dhs-nazi-website-redirect-b2902001.html

[laukidh@infosec.exchange]

@FediTips the clip was pinned back in October and was when they got a big influx of government accounts. They’re popular to block.

[knutson_brain@sfba.social]

@FediTips
TFW it sucks to have predicted correctly …

[roque@mastodon.social]

@FediTips if you want to see what bots look like on BlueSky, just check out the followers of that account

[justin@toot.io]

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopper Bluesky was never an option.