An important PSA for people who are active on #Bluesky and who, upon hearing that the ICE account was officially verified, are saying: "I will just block it."

[Gast]

@_elena can we call it brownshirtsky now?

[Gast]

@_elena I would not like to be on a platform that verified and then accepted an ice account. Also being able to see who or what I blocked doesn' t give me a warm and fuzzy privacy feeling.

[Gast]

@_elena The fact people use bluesky knowing they were OK Platforming Nazis, Far-Rightists, conspiracy theorists and phobes of various elements was already bad. Knowing people are still using the platform after ICE created an account there says a lot about their userbase.

[Gast]

@_elena Wow!

[Gast]

@strght @_elena i never understood this twitter to bluesky migration
.. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...

[Gast]

@_elena we have ice and we have social media snobs, larping like they're there, IRL making a difference.

Might as well be one and the same for how effective it is.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@_elena Everything on Bsky is public

They don’t care about privacy

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@stux indeed. it's like a perfect honeypot if you think about it

[Gast]

@_elena
It's weird that one's blocks are visible on Bluesky. However, what's so bad if ICE knows one has blocked them?

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sloanlance not just ICE but also 4Chan-minded bad actors that may harass users blocking gov accounts

[Gast]

@sloanlance
It gives an immediate indication that you might be anti-ICE. Then if they were so inclined they could investigate further, looking for "terroristic" statements or whatever.

@_elena

[Gast]

@_elena If you're outside the United States, make sure to write to your politicians to tell them you don't want your nation's security and immigration working with ICE! Wearing masks and shooting innocent civilians, threatening violence and terrorising the general population, these are not the behaviors of a legitimate law enforcement agency.

[Gast]

@_elena

I blocked the entire bsky.brid.gy instance as well as blocking the bridge bot.

[Gast]

@_elena and what about subscribing to block lists? There are block lists for fascism ... as dangerous for US people?

[Gast]

@_elena@mastodon.social this just screams psyop to me (ICE going on bluesky)

[Gast]

@_elena this is pretty stupid lol

[Gast]

@nazokiyoubinbou Just a note for the Fediverse = paradise adepts: I'm regularly blocking and if possible reporting Maga propaganda even on Mastodon. You can get evil people *everywhere*.
The question is how much you can protect yourself or if such attempts are defederated or suspended.
Here, the Fediverse is better because human moderators. But most people don't know that difference. And would Mastodon be prepared if the ICE opens an account?

@u_urban @_elena

[Gast]

@stux BTW, blocking on Mastodon is also visible. And worse: blocked people can often still read all your public postings. We also have room for improvement when it comes to safety!

@_elena

[Gast]

@vladcampos This. And a lot of independent media/journalists, scientists, climate scientists especially, NGOs. Doing Social Media professionally, I am obliged to have an account there for reading their news.
Many left Mastodon after a test phase reporting they had bad experiences with people telling them on the very first day how they have to behave or write their posts.
I like the Fediverse like you, it's my centre. But for reaching masses (important for activists), it's too niche.

@_elena

[Gast]

@_elena I am staying here. No Stasi, no Nazis, no AfD, no ICE, no DHS, no CDU, no CCP….problem solved.