My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
I'm glad you asked.
"Who you block" is a reasonable indicator of your personal alignments. If you block TERFs, you're likely trans-friendly, if not trans yourself. If you block white supremacists, you're likely in support of multiculturalism.
If you block government entities, well, you know how this goes.
Do I trust Bluesky to handle that information with care? Hell no.
@vkc I remember this being an issue with Twitter lists, too. I might be misremembering, but I seem to recall it being public info the names of the lists others had added you to, so even if your account was private, someone could figure out a lot of information about you just based on how others “categorized” or “labeled” you.
@vkc and that's also why #ChatControl is just abysmally and morally wrong.
If the government (or any one with sufficient power over our every day life entity) has access to your social connections and messages you can be sure it'll only be a matter of time before they will selectively restrict minorities...
I already had my doubts but when ICE was accepted, I left immediately!
To be clear, I don't trust Fedi to handle this information with care, either. Difference being that on Fedi, your mods aren't some VC/blockchain-funded corporate entity. They're often enough your friends, your neighbors, or yourself.
While there are certain database-related exploits which can be used to pull a blocklist, often enough that's a challenge for a typical layperson with an axe to grind. And it's an incomplete picture thanks to the quirks of federation. Not so on Bluesky.
I'm not going to talk about Bluesky anymore for a bit, but I know folks are coming back here after hanging out there for a while, and I want to encourage Fedi users not to gloat, not to be jerks about it.
And if you're just (re)joining us on Fedi, like all affinity groups, you're going to run into enthusiasts who are gloating, but I promise most of us are just happy you're here and want to help make this place awesome for you. <3
@vkc bluesky is no different than twitter. even if its leadership might be a bit better, it's still a proprietary site, and i don't care what anyone says about that. better to use fedi. you're still handing all your data and opsec over to an entity that you can't trust with either.
who do you trust more with your data? an american corporation called bluesky, or the cat-eared furry running your local friendly mastodon instance? i know which one i trust.
edit: and to be clear, i trust the furry.
