@FediTips @mastodonmigration

In a recent @WIRED interview, when asked "Would you welcome President Trump?" CEO Jay Graber responded "Yeah—Bluesky’s for everyone." So their welcoming of Vance doesn't surprise me. (I don't support this choice, to be clear.)

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/

#Bluesky #USPol

NOTICE: Your account may soon be bridged to #Bluesky whether or not you want it to be.

According to @LaurensHof's excellent Fediverse Report (https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-121/) changes have been made to the Bluesky bridge.

"Bridgy Fed, the bridging software that connects ActivityPub with ATProto, has gotten an update where server admins can opt-in to the bridge for their entire server."

Thought Bluesky bridge opt-in vs opt-out was settled. Why has this been done without soliciting community input?

J.D. Vance Becomes the Most Blocked Account on Bluesky

Although there are plenty of people on Elon Musk‘s X, Truth Social, and any number of other social…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #Bluesky #JamesDavidVance #jdvance #LGBTQ #socialmedia #TransRights #twitter #vance #vicepresident #VP
https://www.europesays.com/2177577/

Weil J.D. #Vance jetzt auch #BlueSky bespielt, sind gerade viele User damit beschäftigt mit Blockaufrufen noch mehr User damit zu beschäftigen sich mit J.D. Vance und der Frage ob sie ihn blocken wollen (oder nicht) zu beschäftigen. 🫣

Zu diesem Anlass möchte ich allen Instanzen-Admins und Moderationsteams aller Fedi-Plattformen im coolen Teil des Fediverse ganz herzlich dafür danken, daß sie einen wirklich großartigen Job machen, und uns den rechten Schmuddelkram auf Instanzebenen und per #fediblock weitesgehend vom Hals halten, und wir uns so auf die guten Dinge konzentri... Oh, ein 🐿️! 😍

Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users

the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-ext / mary.my.id has a neat lil' GitHub repo that collects them all in one place: https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping?tab=readme-ov-file#bluesky-hosted-servers

Now if we wanna specifically exclude content from the PDS that JD Vance is on, all I'd have to do is look up which one of these PDS instances vance's account is, nuke it from our database and stop ingesting content from that PDS through the firehose

For reference, we can use https://pdsls.dev to look up JD's server and determine it to be https://woodear.us-west.host.bsky.network/

problem is, unlike how fedi tends to work, the underlying PDS instances are assigned automatically; Vance didn't choose that PDS, it was chosen for him. As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him

Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable.

It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works, it doesn't quite make as much sense to block the server vance is currently on, it makes much more sense to block the account and associated did:plc identity ← This makes sure that even IF vance moves his account (although I'd doubt it) to another PDS, he will stay blocked on our infra.

Uh oh Vance is on #Bluesky 🫣

@IndyRichard @AnnyJoe @Jerschte @kaliagainstallodds

yes, there is an antidote to #socialMedia killing #democracy

this

the #fediverse/ #mastodon

not #bluesky: centralized and crypto bro owned

unfortunately some voices on the fediverse prefer it stay fringe and small

this is elitist snobbery

you want more people here, more normies (never #bigotry)

centralized corporate social media didn't fight bigotry, and now they support it

so here is where the line must hold

and grow

screw elitism

@dangillmor can someone explain to me how #Bluesky can be considered decentralized? Running a community within Bluesky means it's still on Bluesky servers.

@_elena

a well known con artist aspect of #cryptocurrency is that it promises a lot, and delivers little

and people buy into that

then they rabidly defend the empty promises

because they also literally bought into it: they purchased the #crypto, they need a financial return

same is happening with #bluesky "#decentralization." because bluesky promised it, people have to believe it. and if you doubt it, you're being "unfair"

(and i miss professor postman too: he was my thesis advisor at NYU)

@bobjonkman @GottaLaff @fkamiah17

this kind of #gatekeeping behavior drives people away from #mastodon

stop doing it

you're not helping

you can expect from other posters a modicum of behavior, a baseline. no bigotry for example

micromanaging other people's posting style is not it

as someone who dislikes #bluesky, i would advise people to *not* listen to your suggestion, it is unnecessarily intrusive and demanding

if you don't like a bluesky link comment: don't read it. mute it. whatever

Is anybody using this #BlueSky bridge thingy?

I do, basically since it exists, but I get almost zero interaction from there. Perhaps 1 in 200 (or even less) replies come from there.

I wonder why that might be.