Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115393404732174116).
All of these accounts are spreading bigotry, hatred and dangerous lies about vulnerable groups.
It is NOT enough to just "block and forget", here's why: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112581263140051643
This is a 1930s moment, and #Bluesky is choosing to host vile hatred. It is going down the same path as Twitter/X.
p.s. You can stop Bluesky having any connections or interactions with your server by asking your server admin to defederate bsky.brid.gy
If you are a server admin and want help with how to defederate, there's a guide at https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon
#Bluesky #Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services This is an incredibly stupid thing to do on an instance of any serious scale. The entire purpose of the bridge is to enable (opt-in!) interoperability, and there are real people on the other side. Blocking an instance (or in this case bridge server) blindly is an incredibly bad idea because it breaks real connections that matter.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @admin@hear-me.social ?
#hearmesocial
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Isn’t defederation just ‘block and forget’ but on behalf of everyone on a server? Isn’t at least part of the point of Mastodon and other Fedi services that individuals get choice in what they want to see and interact with? I’m not saying that Bluesky has made good choices here, but what impact will this make other than stopping people interacting with ordinary Bluesky users via gateways? Or are you saying that everyone on Bluesky supports the current US regime (which is probably fair enough to say about Truth Social for example) and it is proactive protection of a server community from harassment? I’m genuinely curious as to why you’re promoting the nuclear option…
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services What a dumb thing to do.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @stux@mstdn.social? 
@foxbasealpha@tech.lgbt
No, the idea of defederation is to prevent hateful lies spreading and radicalising people on your server. It happens, I've seen it IRL.
"Isn’t at least part of the point of Fedi services that individuals get choice in what they want to see and interact with?"
You have the choice of which server you join or move to, or you can even set up your own.
But it's up to the owner of each server who it federates with, because the owner is responsible for the content of their server.
Fedi.Tips
