In principle platforms should verify government entities, given sufficent documentation

Why?

If you think about it, the USA is a Nazi bar.

Jack Dorsey is an example of how the dumbest man can fall upwards by being backstabby as fuck.

What? Gone so soon?

I think it's the whole parasocial relationship thing, where you think you're close friends with someone who doesn't know your name.

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.

I hate Twitter style platforms. I truly don't get it. I can see how it makes people addicted to the endless scroll and fomo though.

You can put your follows onto lists you can group by category on mastodon. My feed is literally my own posts and Technology Connections. If I want to see anyone else I follow I have to manually visit the lists.

I do the same on Lemmy. Smaller comms I'll subscribe to, but busy ones (esp meme ones) I just add to favourites so I can check them manually and I don't have an everlasting feed.

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.

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?

They shouldn't be allowed onto the platform at all. Don't verify them, ban 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.

Yes it does. It means they are okay enough with them to not ban them.

Surely there are some things that warrant a ban on bluesky. There's some sort of line beyond which you are not welcome. We can infer from this verification that ice is on the safe side of the line.

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.

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.

It’s not about verification per se. Since anyone can create an account directly, no BlueSky accounts are necessarily reviewed by BlueSky. Someone could create an account for Nazi pedos who drink blood and you wouldn’t blame BlueSky for that immediately. But if BlueSky came along and said “hm, yes, you are verified” then they have in an explicit way endorsed the account’s ability to exist. Basically the account passed moderation. Since many consider ICE to be an illegally deployed terror force on American soil, it’s you know, a little disappointing to see anyone treat them as a legitimate entity on any level. A democratic president worth his salt will disband the organization on day 1 and sponsor legislation to prevent them ever coming back.

You clearly never worked  .gov  and understand the process to get a.gov ATO'ed much less a txt record done correctly.

Has anyone been able to get bluesky to work on something other than their server?