@_elena

BSky is:

- centralized
- US based
- owned by a mini-big-tech-bro

Just forget it and let’s focus on the good things in life.

@_elena @hyperreal How to block the bridge? Thanks!

@_elena Thanks for posting here. I’m active on both and appreciate the heads up on this!

@_elena
There is no privacy on bluesky or any other application hosted in US.
US government can request data anytime.

@strght

see here…

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115908542368696091

@UlrikeHahn

@_elena That was the reason for deleting my account 5 minutes before.

@_elena

Damn. Hopefully this gets a wave of people to quit bluesky and join fedi - if ICE was on fedi, the majority of decent instance hosts would just block them outright, so their users wouldn't have to worry.

@smattymatty indeed 🥲

@aaronmccollum thank you Aaron

@_elena I'm not sure if blocking the bridge also blocks linked posts. As far as I can tell on my Bsky account the link to your OP that I shared on Bsky still resolves correctly. Maybe blocking the bridge is a different thing. Or I don't know lol.

@hyperreal good to hear! at any rate my account couldn't be bridged because it starts with an underscore (a quirk of the bridge)...

@_elena I've shared your post on Bluesky. I hope it'll help people there.

@aaronmccollum @_elena It's a real worry that right now, thousands of people with reason to fear ICE are voluntarily adding themselves to a handy list of potential targets, simply by blocking the account.

Again and again, the Bluesky people demonstrate they have no interest in the safety of users.

@ApostateEnglishman @aaronmccollum indeed... even if this is unintentional, it's starting to feel like a honeypot

@on_code thank you Laurent!

@_elena There are many more companies, institutions, news outlets, YouTubers etc. there then here. For example, several EU institutions and politicians are pretty active there. So, I have a few lists and use it as sort of a reader to check the latest news and other information once or twice a day. Mastodon is where I follow and interact with real people, which is what I really enjoy here.

@_elena I wouldn’t use any US service for talking about ICE right now. They’ve got full Palantir coverage on it. Absolutely no doubt on my mind.

@_elena can we call it brownshirtsky now?

@_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.