You can do a server block of "bsky.brid.gy". You should be able to do that by going to this profile @jay.bsky.team on the native Mastodon site, clicking the 3-dot button and finding the block domain option.

I'm personally not blocking, I'll deal with bad actors as they come. Certainly not all of Bsky is "bad". But we all make our experience here what we want it to be. You are empowered to block if ya like and I support that!!

Happy tootin'

I bridged early on to #BlueSky and have some followers because of it. I will not deactivate that & throw them to the dogs w/o VERY good reason.

I don't know anything about this controversy. Please provide more substance, because I don't jump at every social media rumor without sources.

* Who is this person? Who is the other person? (I have read neither of their feeds.)

* Why should I be afraid of them and not simply avoid giving them oxygen and/or counter any misinformation with facts?

* Why should I abandon my BlueSky followers to unchallenged misinformation?

* Please provide links & sources.

I do believe there's a time for blocking, but I never do so pre-emptively or en masse, simply because of the rumor mill. I've seen too many good accounts (mine included) falsely accused & made the target of blocking campaigns on various social media platforms, due to nothing more than some random account posting, "You should all block these people."

#NoMoreBlockLists

Gotta be honest and say, based on some answers here, that I could very well be overthinking this. But honestly, Kiwifarms is no joke and they killed people before. I don't want to make changes with the lives of others. If nothing happens? Beautiful. Glad to retract my recommendation. For now, let's wait and see

My experience in the long time I've been in the Fediverse is one of very positive and secure interactions. That is to say, that any hate speech I've run across has been VERY quickly dealt with, and I don’t see these monsters being allowed to stick around and "poison this well," so to speak, the way BlueSky is allowing them refuge.

I think you’re unnecessarily worried.

By you blocking "everyone who is followed by bridged accts," you're asking folks like me to go thru my many followers & check everyone following me, looking for any BS accounts, then somehow (for NO sins on their part) block them all.

I will not spend hours punishing the innocent, and throw out the wheat with the chaff.

#BlueSky is FAR too entwined with Mastodon now to realistically expect that of everyone. And you would need EVERYONE to do it, for it to work.

I'm sorry you've been hurt, but those millions of people were not the ones who hurt you. Don't condemn them.

But again, that is not justification for cutting off an entire platform of millions of people. You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

You forget how Federation works, and WHY Mastodon & the Fediverse work so well. Bad actors are not allowed to remain for long at all. If an instance does allow them to run amok, then that entire instance is defederated. Admins do not want to risk this with the instance they have built and paid for, so they kick those people off quickly.

We already have NeoNazis, etc, in the Fediverse. But you don't see their instances because those have been defederated.

Your instance and your admins will keep them at bay, without you needing to block the entire #BlueSky platform. Don't panic.

Have faith in federation.

This is not a billionaire's closed platform, unwilling to kick people off for hate speech because those haters sell ad space. This is the Fediverse. We're stronger than that.

If you personally are not bridged, then your posts and even your replies to bridged accounts cannot be seen by BlueSky users. Your entire account is invisible to them.

Then please stop wasting my time arguing your erroneous and ill-informed position on the subject. I'm sorry you don't understand how the tech and federation work, and refuse to learn. Have a nice life.