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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:05:59 ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋 If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person. This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent. Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges. Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge. This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users. If you have chosen to share your This is important. #Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:07:05 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:11:00 Thank you for posting this EM, I am seeing too many that are dismissive of our responsibility to protect the individuals in this community. Yes, we can block bridges, yes we can add protective measures to our accounts, but I like to think we in the hive mind are also thoughtful and respectful enough to take care of our friends safety. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:24:06 @SnowyCA Indeed, privacy is a communal responsibility, and we must all work together to improve our culture regarding consent and the protection of others 💚 |
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Föderation DE Fr 18.07.2025 00:19:19 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:24:18 I didn't build a server to be connected to all the corporations that run socal networks and steal from everyone. Block all BluSky, Facebook, X Instagram, etc... |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:26:16 @Em0nM4stodon yes. Polite not to tag random unrelated people into conversations generally either, but it's especially important when bridging to a corpo space. Always possible to send someone a link if you think they might be interested. Links are still a thing |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:31:12 @Em0nM4stodon |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:33:39 @Em0nM4stodon This! |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:39:43 @Em0nM4stodon I'm a bit concerned that people are looking at it only this way though. That publicly viewable profile is still being crawled by a number of crawlers even if they don't @ a person. It's still publicly searchable with just a name. Personally I'm against interacting with Blusky in any way or it interacting with me, so I get the sentiment here, but I don't think people should be putting stuff they don't want publicly viewed in their publicly viewable profile... Perhaps a good alternative is a followers-only locked post pinned to the profile (along with setting it to require approval to follow) but really the Fediverse should be treated as the open Internet for safety's sake just in general. What's the alternative? Talking to/about people without letting them know? |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:45:13 Each improvement matters. We must inform yes, but we also must also oppose and correct each non-consensual data exposure we can. Each step matters in improving data privacy overtime. Otherwise, we just let all the space free for abuse. The responsibility shouldn't be on people to hide. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:41:30 @Em0nM4stodon Is there a way for individual users to block Bluesky bridges (or similar)? |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:52:16 @distinctdipole Yes, and no. Unfortunately, blocking Bluesky would not prevent the situation described above. However, it might prevent some other situations. The Bluesky account responsible for the bridge can be blocked like any regular user can be blocked. But this might only offer minimal protections, sadly. A stronger protection can be to block the whole domain. Here's how you can do this: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/114871008693759427 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:45:20 @Em0nM4stodon I will file an issue with the Bridgy devs about this. I don’t think it should be actually linking to the account if it’s not bridged. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 00:57:03 @EdwinG Agreed, this tool shouldn't behave that way. Thank you so much for taking the time to bring this information to their attention, this could protect many down the road 💚 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 01:50:20 @Em0nM4stodon Is there something to do with our Mastodon account to avoid this? I’m guessing not? |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 06:56:20 @adelinej setting your account to private and posting followers-only will prevent your content from being visible to others. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 09:04:40 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 09:49:47 @nitrml @evan @adelinej not sure that would be a very good idea... I think there might be some pretty complicated implications for letting a user interact publicly but then hiding their profile from everyone. They control what information they put on their profile which they should know is public anyway. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 16:11:27 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 07:48:29 @Em0nM4stodon thank you for the super important reminder Em 🙌 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 08:24:48 @_elena 🙌 |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 08:34:45 @_elena @Em0nM4stodon Great points here! Hope https://brid.gy folks can implement opt-in mechanism to make consenting to cross-protocol *(profile tagging & quoting) explicit. People go to activity pub networks to enjoy not being part of commercial platforms. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 09:45:47 @_elena @Em0nM4stodon it's NOT how the thing work. |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 10:44:01 @luca it's worth seeing what happened to @randahl yesterday: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114872915952021938 this bridging thing can potentially cause real headaches / unnecessary drama in some situations |
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Föderation EN Fr 18.07.2025 11:15:33 @_elena @randahl @Em0nM4stodon Aside people harassing Randahl (in fediverse), which I'm deeply sorry, I don't see enough information from the screenshot to understand the harassment and form an opinion. Maybe Randahl can point out to a bug he opened on bridgy-fed, because, as far as I know, there is no way an @ mention can become a web link to the profile of an unbridged user. https://fed.brid.gy/docs#visibility Are we sure the other user didn't bridge her account, which is as simple as accept a follower, and then forgot ? |
