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>Bluesky is modeled after Twitter, which has sort of public popularity contest features built in, like retweets and replies, which can let malicious users signa
by recursive 3y ago
>Bluesky is modeled after Twitter, which has sort of public popularity contest features built in, like retweets and replies, which can let malicious users signal boost using your account.
I don't use twitter enough to understand what this means. How can a malicious user signal boost using your account? Regardless of blocking. I don't understand what that means. No one else can force you to retweet or reply if you don't want to.
- aseipp 3y agoPeople retweet your post in order to draw the attention of their followers to it, which is often called a "dogpile" (or whatever). But blocking someone prevents them from retweeting you, so it's a decent (but imperfect) mitigation.
- klabb3 3y ago> How can a malicious user signal boost using your account? Not a Twitter user myself either. But I think it works like this: popular user posts something. A troll account replies to that with something edgy. Then the followers of the popular account will see the troll’s comments. Thus the troll has been signal boosted. Afaik blocking is a solution to this problem.