@FediTips @mastodonmigration Not surprising that they open him with open arms "to the conversation".
As if you can converse in a meaningful way with fascists. 🙄

I wonder what happens should he or anyone from that sickening regime joins a fediverse instance.

@McWabbit

If Vance joined a Fediverse instance, and the instance admin didn't kick him off, other instances would defederate that instance.

But this isn't possible on Bluesky because it's centralised.

Hello feditips.

I am a moderator at this instance you see me posting from, app.wafrn.net.

We have optional (read: opt-in) bluesky integration and we have just banned JD Vance

Yes, we can do that. Because yes, Bluesky is just a bit more open than you make it out to be :)

@alexia

That's a bridge, not actual federation.

And blocking just Vance is not defederation. It does nothing to isolate the instance that is hosting him and platforming him. If you want to defederate, you need to block the entire bsky.social instance.

No, we are not a bridge, here read our source code:

https://github.com/gabboman/wafrn/tree/main/packages/backend/atproto

We ingest the firehose directly, we interact with bluesky directly. You can even view bluesky accounts like, say, bluesky's own directly: https://app.wafrn.net/blog/@bsky.app

Notice how there's no bridgy in there? You can check my profile on the bluesky side at https://bsky.app/profile/alexia.at.app.wafrn.net too ← Notice how there's no bridgy here either?

@alexia

If you are federating, are you now going to defederate bsky.social?

Or are you okay with them platforming fascists?

Are you going to take a stand on this or not?

We take care of moderation ok ishly.

The model there is different than here same way they federate in a different way than us

@gabboman @alexia

The model there prevents defederation then?

Or is it not really federated after all?

dont get me wrong I also love being a smug cunt. its fucking adictive.

But seriously, the federation architecture is VERY different.

@GroupNebula563 @gabboman @alexia

"secondly, some things aren’t worth arguing over"

Fascism is worth arguing over.

Calling me a "smug cunt" for trying to warn against fascism is just... there's no words. What are you thinking?

Do you think this is some kind of childish tech vs tech dispute like Mac vs Windows?

I run these accounts purely to try to stop the spread of fascism and hatred. Any tech that helps in that fight, I promote. Any tech that hinders that fight, I warn about.

@GroupNebula563 @gabboman @alexia

If you think I've got a tech wrong that's fine to discuss, I do discuss things regularly and I often message developers to find out more. But hateful name calling and patronising and avoiding mentioning the Nazi elephant in the room is not the way to do it.