Bluesky an' clear: the social media app that will definitely last forever

excessive blocking by a significant % of users will eventually deteriorate the overall user experience, dont think theyve really thought this one through

Going by that criterion, I would have blocked my children years ago.

why are you still asking me for dinner i blocked you, mods

I owe NOTHING to you

1 grilled cheese

I'm 100% in favor of blocking anyone who mildly annoys you

congrats

blocking is unpaid labor

blocking is sex work

only if you do it right

I'm loving the handwringing about the barbarians storming the gate if only to laugh at the incredible self regard Bluesky holds itself in

my precious twitter clone lol

wonder if theres actually even any big rush of sign ups today

the incredible self regard Bluesky holds itself in

It's positively Tumblr-esque.

im not seeing any of this stuff tbh but as a non-loser i follow interesting funny ppl

i see a bit of it rted from one account i follow but besides that yeah not much, some people making fun of it, i like to see it tho its good to know whats going on, thats why i never block

i block like Yglesias and a few music dudes i can't stand it's good for my soul

blocking is very good for people who are constantly inventing a guy to argue with (and pretending you're the guy) or reply-guy trolls. other people that are minor annoyances are just worth muting so you don't see large portions of a thread disappear in the default client

wonder if the former Tweetbot people are considering a bsky client in addition to their mastodon one. I checked out Graysky for a bit and it wasn't different enough for me to care that much

i hate social media but have gotten hooked on twitter so hoping it dies, no desire to recreate it with another website with an annoying name.

Wouldn't have thought that "blocking other accounts for any reason at any time is totally acceptable" was unique to "Bluesky culture."

I mean, I never blocked very many people on Twitter myself, but it seemed like a lot of other people curated their experience that way, especially people with large followings and/or who experienced a lot of harassment, and that didn't seem particularly controversial to me. That's what the block button was for.

I mute pretty liberally on social media (blocking less so, but for sure if someone is being a jerk or seems like someone I wouldn’t even want seeing/engaging with my posts).

(On Bluesky I also relied heavily on the topic/interest feeds, and the custom feed that I set up)

I will mute based on vibes alone, it’s often not even a negative judgment really, just “this isn’t the kind of thing I’m here to see”

I will mute based on vibes alone, it’s often not even a negative judgment really, just “this isn’t the kind of thing I’m here to see”

its fine with me if people want to mute and block til the cows come home none of my business but a society (website) that has blocking as a core spiritual practice is doomed (because too many posts will be hidden)

muting is really the more socially conscious choice, save blocking for major cases

Wouldn't have thought that "blocking other accounts for any reason at any time is totally acceptable" was unique to "Bluesky culture."

― jaymc, Tuesday, February 6, 2024 2:04 PM (twenty-four minutes ago)

the culture on twitter was really weird about this! people would brag about getting someone to block them, obsess over who followed/unfollowed them, etc. And people with large accounts were paradoxically less likely to block than mute, because genuinely threatening people would take a block as their impetus to rally others to harass

I see none of this in eitehr bsky or twitter prob cos i dont engage with those kind of accounts at all, but honestly if anyone I do follow starts RTing realy loud whingey idpol tone police fuckers, I'll just mute/unfollow, meh.

wonder if theres actually even any big rush of sign ups today

https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3kkrhtm2fa32k

realy loud whingey idpol tone police fucker

There's a screen name in there.

The tone police they come to me in my skeets

excessive blocking by a significant % of users will eventually deteriorate the overall user experience

the whole idea is to deteriorate the overall user experience

oh well that does make more sense now

wonder if theres actually even any big rush of sign ups today
https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3kkrhtm2fa32k

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, February 6, 2024 7:05 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

saw a big account say they gained 1k followers, get em blue sky app

ceo says they got 100k+ new users https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3kks2tja2sm2q

i forgot til just now that i added like 8 block lists immediately upon signing up, guess it works. i did have to manually mute tom scocca, guy is a machine

I wasn’t aware that the Bluesky CEO was a crypto maven, so assume it’s already in a death spiral now.

they’re more “protocol” people (ie poly libertarians) than crypto per se IIUC.

they had 550k new users in the past 24 hours.

xp oh boy that's one interesting way to put it

the CEO worked for two crypto companies for a few years, dunno that that makes them a maven.

I wish the desktop browser version would keep the back arrow glued to the top of the screen when you scroll through replies on a post. It's a small complaint because you can go back by hitting the home icon or your browser back button, but I still find myself scrolling back to the top of posts to do this and then getting annoyed.

yes that is completely annoying

ask that guy Paul to do it.

Good feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq

The only one from that list that I'm following is Satan. Surprising that he is considered quiet.

xp nice, that one is half ilx people for me

i like how much jamelle bouie has Had Enough with his reply guys on this site

https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kkyhdldmvi27

he blocked me for being a reply guy so I can't read it (I like him, but have always found his social media presence a bit willfully obtuse...he said something quite a while ago that everyone misinterpreted, because IMO he was just not clear, and I said so, and got immediately blocked)