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

DonCC

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whaaaaaaat?
well f blue sky then.

Phillip Plays

@FediTips Props to BS for supporting free speech on some level. I hope to see them keep the trend up!

avatastic :enby_rebel:

@FediTips have they at least stopped lying about being decentralised yet?

I stopped caring after I burned everything, but it's in the zeitgeist now so I'm curious.

ZenHeathen :canada:

@FediTips Hands up those who knew from the start ️

tomwsmf

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Magenta Rocks

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That is a bit unfair to say they are 'collaborating'.

FYI they also host a moderation list that automatically blocks many of the gov accounts, including this new ICE account.

Bluesky is very flexible and gives you lots of options to keep unwanted accounts away from your feed.

I will add, they do not have private profiles, which is still a problem and much requested feature.

Elly

@avatastic @FediTips my bet RE: the first domino was how BlueSky Moderation gave Jesse Singal the five-star treatment, all despite outcry from trans users telling them that he’s a bad-faith actor and a serial harasser

a lot of other awful enshittification nonsense—e.g. constantly banning Palestinian accounts on-sight (even when proven to be verified), allowing the Trump regime to make tons of official accounts—seemed to all flow down from there

avatastic :enby_rebel:

@blakasmoko @FediTips that's a name which sounds familiar, so you may well be correct.

Elly

@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/

James Britt

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Just reported the account for violence. FWIW.

Colorblind Cowboy

@FediTips Just fucking dump BS already, folks. It’s not gonna get better. Get your dopamine elsewhere.

Comfortably Numb

@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.

J.R. Orci

@FediTips PREACH

Maddie

@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.

WesDym

@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

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Blue sky should be unfederated and all ties cut.

Jargoggles

@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

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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

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

Sashin

@FediTips The CEO gave a warm welcome to Vance