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Bluesky's Twitter account is appropriately crowing about their superior blocking features: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1838292181909672312 https://twitte

Bluesky's Twitter account is appropriately crowing about their superior blocking features: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1838292181909672312 https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1838292181909672312: > damn that's crazy. Anyway on bluesky, users have named the blocking function "the nuclear block" because it's such a powerful tool to reduce harassment and dogpiling. You should have control over your experience online.

renewiltord 2y ago
Bluesky is fortunately a honeypot where crazy people all flocked to so that they could post predictions on when Twitter would collapse (highest option: 2 weeks). I think the most effective tool on bluesky is being on bluesky so no one can read what one says because you’re constantly blocking each other even though everyone’s got the same views.
- sph 2y ago
  Bluesky is the weirdest echo chamber of white liberal queer Americans, it feels like entering a museum or a theme park where everyone is the same, posts the same things, and agrees with each other to demonise the same things. With Twitter being the cesspool of humanity—but with a ton of variety and opinions—I don't know which is worse, so I use neither.
  - CobrastanJorji 2y ago
    That's a little unfair of a description. It comes down to who you're following, I guess. For example, something like 70% of Bluesky's content is in Portuguese.
    - IntelMiner 2y ago
      Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population
      - azangru 2y ago
        > Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population Is the supreme federal court's judge of the country with said population a billionaire? I had no idea.
        IntelMiner 2y ago
        Did the supreme federal court judge force twitter to break that nations laws?
        azangru 2y ago
        Parent said "block Twitter", not "break laws". (You wouldn't argue that Zuckerberg forced Facebook or Instagram to break Russian laws, or that Sundar Pichai forced Youtube to do the same, would you?)
      - maxlin 2y ago
        Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X. But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive out-of-pocket Starlink donations to Ukraine. War is peace, truth doesn't matter to these people I guess.
        IntelMiner 2y ago
        Hi Elon!
        maxlin 2y ago
        How you think that the whole world would be fine just lying through their teeth just because some people don't like the guy for petty reasons, makes me think you really have little respect for the whole world, or little respect for being honest and truthful.
    - sph 2y ago
      Last I tried it, I wasn't following anyone so was sampling the public feed, and most posts were about identity politics or how bad Twitter is compared to BlueSky. An echo chamber, certainly you wouldn't find anything about Arstotzka nor Cobrastan on there right now.
  - Tomte 2y ago
    And everybody is posting screenshots of their X posts. That they only make to „educate“ X people, but bsky followers should really see their good work. I mean, just be on X if most of your bsky posts are really X posts.
  - matsemann 2y ago
    I disagree. Not getting abused and drowned in hate is not the same as an echo chamber.
    - sph 2y ago
      An echo chamber can be pleasant and welcoming.
      - matsemann 2y ago
        But you use it with a negative connotation, and trying to portray it as just as bad as enduring constant abuse. I don't want to be abused. I just want to discuss my hobbies in peace without alt-right people showing up and telling me to kill myself.
  - maxlin 2y ago
    X actually has both. But I've seen people call places "cesspools" even if one from a thousand members is considered "undesirable". You probably should recalibrate your senses here, or you'll never find anything "balanced". And just stating the obvious but your feed is built by the algorithm and the defaults which it shows have little weight after you find relevant people to you to follow
mjfl 2y ago
blocking makes even less sense on a decentralized app.
Melchizedek 2y ago
There seems to be an extreme obsession with blocking, banning, censoring, demonetizing, deplatforming, firing, unbanking, un-personing. And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life. This is not healthy.
- fourside 2y ago
  > whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life How do they completely dominate mainstream media? Twitter is mainstream.
  - pjc50 2y ago
    Even twitter is kind of fringe. Fox News is "mainstream" in the US.
- troad 2y ago
  There is no site more perfectly suited to turning people off the fundamental democratic value of free speech than Elon Musk's Twitter, circa 2024. The front page is just brazen anti-Semitism and racism at this point. And no, I am not referring to some reasoned debate of the Gaza War or social issues, I mean literal memes with hook-nosed men, their captions explicitly referring to the Protocols of the Elder of Zion. I mean photos of black children with captions about low IQs. It's truly abhorrent. Open a no-follows, no-cookies Twitter account right now, and see how long it takes you to get something like this on the front page of Twitter. It won't be more than 30 seconds. I have truly never seen anything like it. Perhaps it's old hat for some of you 4Chan types, but it's profoundly shocking to the average person. If Gen Z or their successors kill the First Amendment, it will be because Elon groomed them to think that this deluge of darkness is what free speech is all about. It is not. Twitter is an echo chamber that offers direct financial incentives for being the most vociferous hater, the most demented racist, the most extremist politician. That's a thumb on the scales, which kills off any notion that what emerges out of Twitter is the product of open and free discourse.
  - kortilla 2y ago
maxlin 2y ago
>appropriately crowing Well that's a subjective statement if there ever was. Steering in to polarizing and insulating people from actual honest public discourse isn't progress.

renewiltord 2y ago

Bluesky is fortunately a honeypot where crazy people all flocked to so that they could post predictions on when Twitter would collapse (highest option: 2 weeks). I think the most effective tool on bluesky is being on bluesky so no one can read what one says because you’re constantly blocking each other even though everyone’s got the same views.

sph 2y ago
Bluesky is the weirdest echo chamber of white liberal queer Americans, it feels like entering a museum or a theme park where everyone is the same, posts the same things, and agrees with each other to demonise the same things. With Twitter being the cesspool of humanity—but with a ton of variety and opinions—I don't know which is worse, so I use neither.
- CobrastanJorji 2y ago
  That's a little unfair of a description. It comes down to who you're following, I guess. For example, something like 70% of Bluesky's content is in Portuguese.
  - IntelMiner 2y ago
    Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population
    - azangru 2y ago
      > Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population Is the supreme federal court's judge of the country with said population a billionaire? I had no idea.
      - IntelMiner 2y ago
        Did the supreme federal court judge force twitter to break that nations laws?
        azangru 2y ago
        Parent said "block Twitter", not "break laws". (You wouldn't argue that Zuckerberg forced Facebook or Instagram to break Russian laws, or that Sundar Pichai forced Youtube to do the same, would you?)
    - maxlin 2y ago
      Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X. But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive out-of-pocket Starlink donations to Ukraine. War is peace, truth doesn't matter to these people I guess.
      - IntelMiner 2y ago
        Hi Elon!
        maxlin 2y ago
        How you think that the whole world would be fine just lying through their teeth just because some people don't like the guy for petty reasons, makes me think you really have little respect for the whole world, or little respect for being honest and truthful.
  - sph 2y ago
    Last I tried it, I wasn't following anyone so was sampling the public feed, and most posts were about identity politics or how bad Twitter is compared to BlueSky. An echo chamber, certainly you wouldn't find anything about Arstotzka nor Cobrastan on there right now.
- Tomte 2y ago
  And everybody is posting screenshots of their X posts. That they only make to „educate“ X people, but bsky followers should really see their good work. I mean, just be on X if most of your bsky posts are really X posts.
- matsemann 2y ago
  I disagree. Not getting abused and drowned in hate is not the same as an echo chamber.
  - sph 2y ago
    An echo chamber can be pleasant and welcoming.
    - matsemann 2y ago
      But you use it with a negative connotation, and trying to portray it as just as bad as enduring constant abuse. I don't want to be abused. I just want to discuss my hobbies in peace without alt-right people showing up and telling me to kill myself.
- maxlin 2y ago
  X actually has both. But I've seen people call places "cesspools" even if one from a thousand members is considered "undesirable". You probably should recalibrate your senses here, or you'll never find anything "balanced". And just stating the obvious but your feed is built by the algorithm and the defaults which it shows have little weight after you find relevant people to you to follow

mjfl 2y ago

blocking makes even less sense on a decentralized app.

Melchizedek 2y ago

There seems to be an extreme obsession with blocking, banning, censoring, demonetizing, deplatforming, firing, unbanking, un-personing. And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life. This is not healthy.

fourside 2y ago
> whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life How do they completely dominate mainstream media? Twitter is mainstream.
- pjc50 2y ago
  Even twitter is kind of fringe. Fox News is "mainstream" in the US.
troad 2y ago
There is no site more perfectly suited to turning people off the fundamental democratic value of free speech than Elon Musk's Twitter, circa 2024. The front page is just brazen anti-Semitism and racism at this point. And no, I am not referring to some reasoned debate of the Gaza War or social issues, I mean literal memes with hook-nosed men, their captions explicitly referring to the Protocols of the Elder of Zion. I mean photos of black children with captions about low IQs. It's truly abhorrent. Open a no-follows, no-cookies Twitter account right now, and see how long it takes you to get something like this on the front page of Twitter. It won't be more than 30 seconds. I have truly never seen anything like it. Perhaps it's old hat for some of you 4Chan types, but it's profoundly shocking to the average person. If Gen Z or their successors kill the First Amendment, it will be because Elon groomed them to think that this deluge of darkness is what free speech is all about. It is not. Twitter is an echo chamber that offers direct financial incentives for being the most vociferous hater, the most demented racist, the most extremist politician. That's a thumb on the scales, which kills off any notion that what emerges out of Twitter is the product of open and free discourse.
- kortilla 2y ago

maxlin 2y ago

>appropriately crowing Well that's a subjective statement if there ever was. Steering in to polarizing and insulating people from actual honest public discourse isn't progress.