A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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Wellllll...
In principle verification is not in itself an endorsement by the platform
In principle platforms should verify government entities, given sufficent documentation
In practice, I don't fucking care, abolish ICE, fuck everyone who bows to them, platforms aren't obligated to be the mouthpieces of clearly fascist governments
This is your daily reminder to stop using platforms owned by billionaires.
they could essentially create an account on mastodon and self verify. I guess the bad part is that bsky pro actively has to verify and they did.
The moment the US Gov would have any instance on Mastodon, it would be blocked into oblivion.
Mastodon.gov is probably already taken too
TBF Bluesky users would send this account to blocko land quickly via block lists etc
It's useful for them to have a presence because it helps drum up anger at them. Did you see the shit on twitter where the official twitter of DSHS posted a pic of a tropical paradise with the caption America after 100 million deportations? Notably nobody believes there are 100M undocumented immigrants or even 100M immigrants period. 100M is the number of non-white people in America.
They literally said America will be great after we implement the final solution to the brown people problem. Hard to beat them calling themselves nazis. I say let them speak. Let people hear their hate so nobody has any illusions about who we are up against.
Its getting harder and harder to find a bar not full of Nazis
If you think about it, the USA is a Nazi bar.
Just like Europe I guess?
It's not though
There are Nazis in America and rather than leaving the "bar", Americans stick around.
Yes, there are Nazis all over the world. That wasn't your initial point. You said that America is being filled up with Nazis. I dont like MAGA not Nazis, but I do have the cognition needed to understand that MAGA and Nazis aren't the general population in America. I don't know why you have the need to spread this fear and lies.
I can't find icegov on Bsky
Must already be on a moderation list I'm subscribed to
EDIT: Yep. It is.
ICE could easily make an account on Mastodon, would they get pissed if that happened too?
They could, however...
Mastodon is made of lots of instances, nobody wants to be the instance with ICE on it. If they make their own instance or the government makes their own, they can be defederated by whatever instances wish to.
That's the difference, you can kick Ice out of your federated servers. You can't do that with bsky.
In theory yes. In practice? Say ice gets on the big main instance (like 90% of the users does anyway, would be my guess). The admins on this big main instance will allow the ice account to exist. Now what? Everyone defed with the big main instance? It will blow up the entire fediverse or nothing will happen and the last 10% will sit in their small fedi silos being tankies and talk about how America is a pedo nazi state (sorry about that last rant but jesus christ everything turns political on Lemmy from the first comment on nearly every post).
Mastodon can have instancewide ban, I am pretty sure any instance which allowed ICE would get the whole instance banned, and with it all the users leaving to any other one
Just because an account got verified doesn't mean Bluesky agrees with them
Who the fuck cares if "they" agree with them or not.
ICE is a fascist appendage and should not be allowed on any "public discourse" platform.
Verify it, then put a warning along the lines of
"This is the official profile of a fascistic terrorist organization. Beware."
Yeah, that makes sense. But why just verify? What non-evil is there that you achieve with that?
But why just verify? What non-evil is there that you achieve with that?
It gives those who're gonna have a field day with those cunts when they start lying, a legit target, and that it's not some asshat that is pretending to be ICE. I'm on bluesky and somewhat delighted they're going to have a presence. I'm gonna have fun ripping them new assholes.
It means that a little more than it means they disagree with them.
ICE are masked jackboot thugs illegally deployed to our streets by a psychopathic rapist to punish people who don’t vote for him. If there is ever a time to resist tyranny….
“Welcome. Let’s see what you have to say” is not an appropriate reaction to their presence.
What's the issue with them being verified..?
Yeah, this just allows people to know that their content is really from the US government. Not verifying them seems like a worse alternative for everyone.
Yea i don't get it either, all it means is that they checked and it's run by actual ICE. It's not xitter, they don't get special privileges from it.
Agreed
I instantly know this really a treasonous post and I can downvote and ignore.
It saves me the step reading trying to decide if it is a parody account or something.
I could never get used to that sort of app. Be it Twitter, bsky, or even mastodon. If I follow people, my feed gets so much content that I consider spam.
Say, there is a person that is awesome and occasionally posts interesting things. But also posts random spammy stuff, like "just took a shower. I feel so clean!". Why am I wasting my time reading that sort of content?? I think there are 0 people in the world from which I want to read 100% of their content. Maybe very very very few. So, it doesn't make much sense to follow people, and then waste hours scrolling content about which I don't care.
I could follow tags, but they still get so much spam and so I still have to scroll and scroll..
It is just not for me.
Hasn't these microblog services not just become an outlet for famous people i.e. actors, singers, models, politicians, influencers etc. and even government to post stuff? In some countries even the police use these platforms to communicate to the public even before using other outlets.
