Well folks, it seems I’m finally busted.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@greenWhale Yes. LinuxIsBest is the guy who claims to work for Facebook.

[raphaellakay@mastodon.world]

@aral

their "article" gave me a headache, it makes no sense at all ‍

that's really shitty of them to take Joy's pictures without permission + pretending to be another person

[fishnameddog@mastodon.social]

@aral given that the person's Not-Accusations-Nope-Not-At-All-I'm-Just-Asking-Questions about the photos being AI-generated, the fact that the image for the profile is clearly AI generated is...interesting.

[gomli@piaille.fr]

@aral
You have my full support. I've been following you since the ground offensive. Thank you again for your initial work with @joynewacc . We're with you!

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@gomli @joynewacc

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@aral "joy is a different person each time because her bracelets and nailjobs are different" local man discovers the concept of taking jewelry off

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@aral everyone knows palestinians die in the clothes they were born in, and live in them, forever

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@nlupo CC @fabio And even those gibberish claims about the PDS are technically incorrect, right?

[amro@todon.nl]

@mynameistillian @aral
‍️ "Sorcery I tell you, sorcery"

[bebatjof@twoot.site]

@aral you mean this isn't Johnny Depp?

[fabio@manganiello.eu]

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @nlupo@amikejo.xyz that's right. PDS used by Joy's account on Bluesky:

❯ curl -s "https://plc.directory/$(
  curl -s 'https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle?handle=joyfromghazza.bsky.social' | jq -r '.did'
)" | jq -r '.service[0].serviceEndpoint'
https://fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network

Server info:

❯ curl -s "https://fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.server.describeServer" | jq

{
  "did": "did:web:fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network",
  "availableUserDomains": [
    ".fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network"
  ],
  "inviteCodeRequired": true,
  "links": {
    "privacyPolicy": "https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy",
    "termsOfService": "https://bsky.social/about/support/tos"
  },
  "contact": {}
}

It's a server hosted on Bluesky's own network, further confirmed by the fact that it even advertises Bluesky's official ToS and privacy policy (something that matches what Joy said from the very beginning, that she was on a PDS sympathetic with minorities, but still part of the main network).

And a quick search for recent posts on that PDS shows that there's still activity from other users, even if Joy is no longer posting there:

❯ curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $BSKY_JWT" "https://bsky.social/xrpc/app.bsky.feed.searchPosts?q=fibercap.us-west.host.bsky.network" \
    | jq -r '.posts[].author.handle'
aragorn-estragon.bsky.social
ohlamoole.bsky.social
shigepon.net
...

So yeah...so much for the theory of "this is a PDS that Aral took online just to host his fake account".