Threat modeling US government accounts on Bluesky (including implications for fedi)

I’ve been staring to work on threat modeling and mitigations for this situation, both for the ATmosphere and for fedi.. Here’s an outline … feedback welcome!

A few specific questions:

  • What other threats, opportunities, and mitigations am I missing?

  • What resources (how-tos for various functionality, lists of blocklists and labelers, etc) are useful?

  • Thoughts about how to package this in a digestible way? One obvious simplification is to break out separate posts with specific recommendations for the ATmosphere and fedi (which would get a lot of the implementation-specific detail out of the overall threat model), but there’s a lot more that could potentially be done …