Today, the US government has created accounts for multiple departments in a coordinated effort to manipulate the discourse on Bsky. Most of the engagement these accounts get is from freshly created accounts in the last 24 hours and some MAGA trolls.
Here are lists of the departments. You can use these to easily block or mute all of them. Starve them of the attention that they are seeking
- https://bsky.app/profile/justinmorgan.io/lists/3m3gevwls2f2f
- https://bsky.app/profile/jake18101.bsky.social/lists/3m3ghr737ok2o
And a list I created with all the people liking their shit, mostly fresh bots and trolls (the script is still WIP if anyone is interested):
I noticed that. I’m not a huge fan of bluesky but use it to not get too out of mainstream… but I’m curious and a little worried to see how they moderate it. They’ve already spewed lies and racism, so they’re pretty much already violating the rules on that platform.
Just like with Twitter, moderators probably won’t take serious action until something violent happens like it did on January 6th
BlueSky has handy user level moderation tools, with block/mute lists that you can subscribe to. There are also the default moderation settings that anre enabled for users to cut down on the amount of misinformation you are exposed to.
The best way to deal with misinformation is to starve it of views via subscribing to block/mute lists and keeping those default moderation tools on.