Gonna be fun watching the folks from Twitter that have gotten used to rage farming learning the Bluesky culture of “Fuck off, I’m just gonna block you and remove this problem for both of us.”
for real !! also blocklists as a feature was not something i knew i needed but its so awesum . Begone Thot (shoots my laserbeam of Fuck off terfs/swerfs)
A reply I got in another branch of this discussion was
bsky.app/profile/bree...
followed by some comments that the second transphobes list sometimes has trans people who annoyed the list owner.
Ah yes, I'm quite familiar with the abuse of the mutelists. Caused a bit of a blowup and pushed at least one longtime furry out of the fandom after months of harassment.
You could still see the replies of people you haven't blocked by going directly to their account, but yeah, the thread will be borked. It's also annoying to know that if I correct misinformation and that person blocks me no one else will see the correction, but I still think it's better this way.
Personally I love it. I feel it discourages the dipshits from continuing to do it. They get blocked, they get to accept they won’t be engaged with further on the topic in that thread.
I've noticed a few people who built large followings stirring the pot and rage farming completely give up here and go back to twitter to complain it's an echo chamber here. Personally I don't care if this place blows up so long as it's cool and chill.
I just mean a thread becomes two... and it's hard to find the beginning.
not in favor of them getting oxygen. I just want "blocked post" (or whatever it says )to be in context of the full thread instead of the start of another thread
but if someone else has blocked a third person in a thread and you're down thread it becomes a whole new thread. I'm like "what was this thread about originally?"
Especially since we have plenty of filters here. My only complaint is that you can’t put specific labels on the content warnings, like “Caution:
Vore Ahead” or something like that.
i'm very cool with people complaining about untagged/mistagged things
everything else, the filters and account settings and unfollow buttons are right there
A lot of it shows up in the list SciFi and it always seems to be of the spiciest variety, and that's not what I'm there for. But I just move on, maybe I mute an account I've seen repeatedly.
I curate my own experience, and let everyone else just be. Y'know?
Yes, muting and blocking are so easy! For porny stuff I don't want to see I usually mute, because that way if they say something in another thread I'll still have the chance to see it. Blocking is for trolls, assholes, and people who are aiming to get porn in front of people non-consensually.
I have nothing against furries & the only reason I'm aware they have a presence here is because I noticed there are feeds dedicated to furry content. The follow/block system here seems to be pretty good at letting people see what they're interested in & blocking out provocateurs.
yeah, i think there were some growing pains early on when furry stuff was ending up in cute animal feeds but it turns out furries aren't in general trying to show their stuff to people who don't want to see it so i haven't heard anything about that in a while
i think the version i saw had to do with keywords that both cute animals and furries had in common, dunno how they worked it out but i haven't seen any humans in an animal feed recently
Which is why, apart from tankies, the attention-addicts weird-farm instead of rage farm here, doing stuff to perplex and confuse everyone in entertaining ways. I'm thinking in particular of @faineg.bsky.social.
Sir, weird-farming on a previously invite-only social media platform would be a TERRIBLE way to nurture an attention addiction. That's like chugging vodka to fix dehydration.
Except that the easiest way to get an invite early on was to be especially weird and hang out with other weird people who were already on bluesky. So weird inviting weird with the implication that you better double down on the weird.
It was a strange time. Alf's Hog was just hanging out.
Fair enough, though I think bluesky was kind of a supernova of weird. Good weird, rather than weird for weird's sake weird. Artisanal, bespoke weird, rather than mass-market, fast-fashion weird.
never got the attitude of "if you block me I win!!!!" or the worse attitude of "i dont want to give people the satisfaction" which is just an admission of how much toxic shit someone is willing to sit there and tolerate.
