sam, 34, ♈🌞♑🌛♐⤴️, chaotic genderqueer demon and future bigenital androgyne, adhd+autistic, (invisibly) disabled, polyam-curious, anarcho-socialist, former apple evangelist turned linux novice and android noob, romantic satanist and daemonolator.
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every now and then someone is surprised to find out that bluesky has public blocks, to the degree there is a fucking leaderboard for most blocked, and i'm really just left wondering why people think this platform is at all worth considering
so this is your reminder: bluesky blocks are public information
This is a sign of a healthy culture. Uh, wait. Well, a culture, that's for sure.
an unofficial one (the link is in the post) but yep, since it's all public information lol
looked at the link - i am positively baffled why anyone believed this was a good idea. this is the kind of shit that people are gonna (and probably are already) try Number Go Upping.
bluesky:
"i am positively baffled why anyone believed this was a good idea"
cohost i love you but can you remove the fucking forced "s and backticks on blockquotes and inline code, pls, my formatting is dying.
I have considered bluesky as there is apparently a meaningful non-white population on there, which I do really miss from Twitter
I mean... I remember old Twitter and how bad it was in like, 2016, before Jack even considered leaving. I can only presume many people forgot this.
i don't know who i was expecting to take up the #1 spot, probably some hot button political figure, certainly not?? a random macro fetishist??
The cryptrobro nazi enabler being on the board and making BS is the sole reason i’m never ever joining
I’ve ignored and rejected invite code offers before and will continue to do so damn it
it's a 24-hour rolling list, apparently, but as far as i'm aware it's because bluesky is really good at showing people random shit, so if you're popular or "go viral" you accumulate a lot of blocks from people who aren't interested in seeing it
alternatively maybe they're just a big deal
don't remember if it was before or after your comment but he got ratioed and deleted his account. it's not really his project and he prefers nostr
Wait on bsky? He got ratio’d off the platform?!?!?
Oooooh that’s epic
I'm legitimately impressed* that the leadership's pivot from "no, we don't have a block or moderation system, that's not healthy for discourse, we have a mute system if you really need it but just talk to people, you can't block them here", when they hit EU law, was "oh. Well you CAN block people but it's VISIBLE, take THAT".
*that's one word for it, at least. There are other, less complimentary, words.
i like bluesky. it's very different vibewise from here and i think telling everyone to "just" come over here would be a disaster. posts are way shorter over there and it feels more like networks of friends instead of cool blogs. it's much less toxic than twitter, you can usually avoid anything you don't wanna see. i can't imagine a scenario in which the fact that x has y blocked comes back to bite someone. follows are also public.
