@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 I am staying here. No Stasi, no Nazis, no AfD, no ICE, no DHS, no CDU, no CCP….problem solved.

@NatureMC @nazokiyoubinbou @_elena

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

@NatureMC @_elena That “telling how to behave" is so true. It happened to me the very first time I tried Mastodon. All I did was post a picture of myself to illustrate something I wanted to mention about a run, and I was told it should be set as “content warning". It was a very basic picture, but because it was a selfie, I "should set it as content warning." Why? It was a very unwelcoming experience.

@_elena "I will just block it" doesn't solve the problem of the social media platform you enrich by posting on approving of a local gestapo

@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

@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

@aoeBerlin @_elena @hyperreal

Dave Rahardja (@drahardja@sfba.social)

@blogdiva@mastodon.social Posting for reference for others on #Mastodon: To stop sharing your posts to Bluesky: 1. Find the user [at]bsky.brid.gy[at]bsky.brid.gy (Type the user in the search box and click the Profiles matching… button) 2. Block the user [at]bsky.brid.gy[at]bsky.brid.gy 3. Click the Preferences button on the sidebar 4. Go to Account/Authorized apps 5. Revoke access for Bridgy, if it exists. To stop seeing posts from Bluesky: 1. Find any user whose address ends with …[at]bsky.brid.gy (You can type bsky.brid.gy in the search box and click the Profiles matching… button) 2. Click on the user name to reveal their profile page 3. Click the ••• button 4. Click Block domain bsky.brid.gy 5. Click Block server To verify that you’ve done it, click the ••• More button on the right sidebar and click Blocked domains. You should see bsky.brid.gy there. #bluesky #defederate #block Blog post for convenience: https://www.humancode.us/2026/01/16/stop-bridging-bluesky.html

SFBA.social (sfba.social)

@NatureMC @_elena Well yeah but that’s if you have a public profile

There is no way around that, without an account anyone can view those from the public pages. That’s why we have followers-only for example

But the block lists are not public on Mastodon and on Bsky they are

@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

@NatureMC @_elena But if you logout, you can still view the profile and posts right?

It wouldn’t make sense otherwise

@_elena @hyperreal

I closed my account there quite a while back but only de-bridged today. I'm sad to no longer see posts from certain people I followed but overall I feel a whole lot better.

@_elena

strongly disagree;

"The safest bet" is to leave bluesky and create a fedi instance with the software of your choice.

wink smiley.

@_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.)

@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

@bastardsheep It’s always felt like a path to bullying people. Either by giving grief to people for who is in their block list or creating awfully named lists and putting people in it. In the past I’ve seen list names that feel like it’s named in such a way they hope the people in the list see it.

@bastardsheep As far as I know I’m not on a list so who knows maybe when you’re added you’re notified. I would not know.

@sl007 I fundamentally agree with you and that’s why I stopped using Bluesky. But I’m trying not to be too divisive and not to alienate people who enjoy it. Otherwise they will dismiss everything I ever say about Bluesky, warnings and whatnot

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

@NatureMC @_elena Yup! And with Mastodon and other Fedi software (most) you could ‘hide’ it behind a auth check

Not sure why they do it that way though