xkeeper

welcome to my personal hell

dragon warrior iii for the game boy color describes me as "stubborn", and i'm tempted to agree with that assessment


co-owner tcrf.net. i run an old forum, jul.
i've been around the internet since '01.
i generally feel like the internet
peaked somewhere around '07.


private: @xkeeper-PLUS
18+: @xkeeper-TI


plural / some kind of digital therian thing.
still discovering myself.
all of this is new to me.


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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


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in reply to @xkeeper's post:

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.

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

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.