Just because an account got verified doesn't mean Bluesky agrees with them

What's the issue with them being verified..?

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.

Its getting harder and harder to find a bar not full of Nazis

ICE could easily make an account on Mastodon, would they get pissed if that happened too?

You mean Jack Dorsey? He left in 2024 and deleted his account. He still gave Trump and Musk a platform, though so I have no doubt he would have approved this if he still was with Bluesky today.

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.

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

So ICE can't get an account on Mastodon?

I can't find icegov on Bsky

Must already be on a moderation list I'm subscribed to

EDIT: Yep. It is.

odd that their username is @icegov.bsky.social instead of @ice.gov... i guess nobody on their social media team knows how to configure a DNS record or create a .well-known textfile.

That account is not visible on Bluesky now.

1. It's the same fucking Billionaire, Jack Dorsey made/whatever Twitter, and then he made/whatever Bluesky.
2. This is the same fucking thing as the windows/mac switch from the 00s. If you want an alternative to fucking windows, linux exists and existed back then too. But it's the same, the masses want the corporate bullshit, just the "New and improved!" version becoming trendy.

All to further the regimes’ propaganda.

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.

It should say fediverse, not mastodon. Other than that, yeah, expecting a billionaire to suddenly care about people is a fool's errand

This is your daily reminder to stop using platforms owned by billionaires.

tbf Lemmy is just Reddit in its infancy.