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

@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

@stux People who work with social media, are obliged to have a public profile.

If you block s'o on Bsky, after some seconds, each part can't see anything more from the other account. Not a single post.

Block lists: yes.

@_elena

@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

@NatureMC @nazokiyoubinbou @_elena

It would be blocked by most instances, mine for shure, I had the freedom to choose!

@u_urban Great to hear. And then it would be easy to move to such an instance to be free of them.
BTW, the moderators here do a hard and great job, especially when we have a wave of propaganda-fake-accounts. You can nearly watch real time how these fakes at last hide on tiny unmoderated instances before they are gone.
People outside often don't know that our moderation is still hand-made.

@nazokiyoubinbou @_elena

@stux I just tested it. Yes, you are right: I have to search for a blocked account on Bsky and then I can read it. They don't have this login-wall like other platforms.
Thanks, I learnt something new!

@_elena

@_elena I will never understand this decision. I’ve seen people say it’s just due to how ATProtocol works. But surely there’s a way they could have implemented blocks and have them private.

@fds I’ve seen a lot of block shaming too. It’s such a bad decision.

@_elena
Why tf does it show who blocks a user? Is that a standard feature of bsky?

@_elena Good catch! I'll share a link to this post on Bsky.

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

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

@_elena You have friends here.

@_elena

The very same applies to the Fediverse, by the way: When blocking someone, that information is relayed to the instance where the blocked account is hosted. While this is not typically publicly visible, malicious instances know who blocked some of their members and can of course use that information.

(We internally used the amount of blocks as a hint to which local account to investigate, but it‘s at present not worth the hassle.)

@_elena At least for me, I just don't want to see their lies and bias. Having them on a block list does that. It stops them from polluting my feed.

Anyone who thinks that stops the US Government from reading your feed, emails, etc. hasn't read Snowdon.

@strght

see here…

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

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

@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

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

@_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.

@aoeBerlin @_elena @hyperreal

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

@vladcampos You're not alone! At the moment, a newcomer is lost in technics, some hardliners play police instead of saying welcome, let them land, and just say: if you need help or want to understand why ... just ask me.

@_elena

@grb090423 @_elena @hyperreal I’m thinking I need to do this too.

i just want to know if they've eclipsed singal as the most blocked account on there now

@apophis also from clearsky, they’re currently standing as the third most blocked account, above singal but below jd vance and the account representing the current whitehouse

@apophis who is singal

@flower .....i actually don't remember