Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social
"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)
More : Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.
Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.
(via @mastodonmigration)
@FediTips @mastodonmigration Not surprising that they open him with open arms "to the conversation".
As if you can converse in a meaningful way with fascists.
I wonder what happens should he or anyone from that sickening regime joins a fediverse instance.
If Vance joined a Fediverse instance, and the instance admin didn't kick him off, other instances would defederate that instance.
But this isn't possible on Bluesky because it's centralised.
Hello feditips.
I am a moderator at this instance you see me posting from, app.wafrn.net.
We have optional (read: opt-in) bluesky integration and we have just banned JD Vance
Yes, we can do that. Because yes, Bluesky is just a bit more open than you make it out to be :)
That's a bridge, not actual federation.
And blocking just Vance is not defederation. It does nothing to isolate the instance that is hosting him and platforming him. If you want to defederate, you need to block the entire bsky.social instance.
No, we are not a bridge, here read our source code:
https://github.com/gabboman/wafrn/tree/main/packages/backend/atproto
We ingest the firehose directly, we interact with bluesky directly. You can even view bluesky accounts like, say, bluesky's own directly: https://app.wafrn.net/blog/@bsky.app
Notice how there's no bridgy in there? You can check my profile on the bluesky side at https://bsky.app/profile/alexia.at.app.wafrn.net too ← Notice how there's no bridgy here either?
If you are federating, are you now going to defederate bsky.social?
Or are you okay with them platforming fascists?
Are you going to take a stand on this or not?
We take care of moderation ok ishly.
The model there is different than here same way they federate in a different way than us
would you like a one to one chat explaining why concepts from here can not apply to bluesky or you rather keep being smug in public?
dont get me wrong I also love being a smug cunt. its fucking adictive.
But seriously, the federation architecture is VERY different.
Do you love being scared that fascists are going to beat you up or kill you?
Because that's the effect Vance has on vast chunks of vulnerable minorities.
Maybe you could stop joking about this and address this seriously.
I'm not being smug about Bluesky, I'm being scared and angry. Can you have some empathy for that?
I don't give a shit about tech, I give a shit about people who are scared. If tech exists, it should be to protect such people.
man, the sheer gall you have to bring minorities into this...
Like bannuh, you do realize that fedi treats people of colour abhorrently badly too, right ??? (hell, it's way, way, wayyyy worse for us over here ! )
So dude, don't go trying to rope in minorities into this, as it's awful over here on fedi for us !!
And as a person of colour (and I'm confident that folks like me feel the same way), I'm saying this- that we don't want you to use us as convenient shields for your misinformative self.
And if you don't like us saying that, then you can go and take yourself back to whatever cushy, white suburbian hell you came from.
I think there is some misunderstanding here?
Vance's Bluesky post is attacking queer people. I'm not "roping in" anyone, Vance and the far right hate me as a queer person.
In my part of the world the word "minorities" is pretty general and also covers queer people, disabled people, language minorities etc.
I don't know if this is an American vs European english thing, but I'm talking about vulnerable minorities in general, not specifically ethnic minorities.