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Thanks for the many boosts & comments!
It's important people know that Bsky app collaborates with ICE & other fascists by allowing them accounts, even after they verified them.
(Verification is not a problem. Not deleting their account afterwards is!)
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Now some people take the opportunity to tell everyone they are not surprised.
I understand, neither am I. You probably warned for this to happen, just like me.
But I'm not sure how telling everyone you're not surprised is helping anyone.
Maybe the important thing is not whether it's surprising, but how bad it is.
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If someone says it's totally OK if ICE is on Bsky, please don't hold back.
People who say that ICE should be able to have an account on social media (or anywhere) as long as they obey the TOS, are the same people who think it was totally OK for nazi's to commit the Holocaust, as nazi law didn't say it was illegal to murder Jews.
It's centrists like that who brought us to this point, and I deeply hate them for it.
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I understand where you're coming from, but this reasoning seems too full of unintended consequences to me. if ICE were to set up an account on some fediverse server, or even set up its own fediverse server, what would your response be, aside from presumably blocking it? would you leave the fediverse over it, and call out anyone else who didn't do likewise?
This is exactly the point in which the Fediverse is far better than Bsky (Bsky is decentralised in their marketing but not in reality)
If ICE would make an account on for example BadlyModeratedMastodonServer.social, and they would not get kicked off by the server moderators, almost all other servers would defederate from that server. Just like we defederated from Trumps truth.social (which was built upon mastodon)
Communal action in stead of individual blocking.
so it looks like we're in agreement
I guess you will also agree on why your earlier messaging was problematic: it sounded like the issue was that they could get an account, and could get it verified, but these same affordances would be available to them with pretty much any ActivityPub-compatible server software, whether operated by themselves or even by some third parties.
the key difference, as you pointed out in response to my question, and which I advise you to focus your messaging on, is on how the server operators and the community would or could respond.
another IMHO problematic messaging weakness in the choice of use of the cartoon, is that it brings to (my?) mind the frequent nazi bar argument, that could lead people to react by leaving the space to the incoming fascists, instead of standing strong there and isolating them or pushing their hateful behaviors out. that association may be a "me" overreaction, because that argument's defeatism and manipulative nature often trigger me, and you hopefully didn't mean any of that, but it may be something to keep in mind
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@Grutjes Unfortunately, Mastodon failed on its task to become an alternative.
@markuswerle Mastodon didn't fail at anything. @Grutjes
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Curious questions in this context: What would happen if #ICE tried to create an account i.e. on mastodon.social?
1. Would the community rules prevent this?
2. Would the account be active until a number of users would report content that actually offends their community rules?
3. If they can also verify prove access to ICE's official website - wouldn't it be "verified" automatically?
4. How many servers would actually degenerate from Mastodon's biggest server because of one account? 🙄
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And if ICE registered a Mastodon account with a smaller server whose community rules would not prohibit ICE's content - how long would it take for servers that represent more than half of the Fediverse's users to actually defederate that server?
Just take sure I'm not mistaken on this issue: I despise ICE's actions and the political agenda it stands for.
I'm just not sure whether the Fediverse could guarantee a "better" reaction to an attempt to register an account here 
@tetrapyloctomist @Grutjes They don't need to. They already got Truth Social, which runs on a customized Mastodon https://greenware-tech.com/truth-social-programming-languages-that-built-it/
And which is defederated by every fediverse server with functioning brains.
@Grutjes @tetrapyloctomist I know, but it wouldn't exist without Mastodon.
The point is that we can find reasons to criticize any project.
@dario @Grutjes @tetrapyloctomist The difference between bluesky and mastodon is that mastodon consists of many servers while bluesky consists of one... So one mastodon server does not mean the whole mastodon, but the whole bluesky server means bluesky
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Very depressing to see the reaction from Bluesky users on their Reddit, they're basically saying it's fine to host ICE as someone who doesn't want to see it can block it from their own feed.
There's no thought being given at all to the violent dangerous hatred the ICE account will spread to those who don't block it, and the consequent radicalisation.
You can't block someone attacking you on the street, and that's what ICE is trying to make happen.