@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.

@_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.

@_elena Wow!

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

@_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.

@_elena Everything on Bsky is public

They don’t care about privacy

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

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

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

@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

@_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.

@_elena

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