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yep lmao

Yeah but then the conservatives/bots just switched strategies to blaming the Democrats in the comments of every post and that seems to have worked out for them.

What qualifies one as an "oldhead"? I arrived just after Musk turned Twatter into an utter cesspit during last US elections. My first recollections were of the glorious anarchy perpetuated by @faineg.bsky.social and sensual Alf et al. A word on block lists though - I prefer to block in person!

My profile literally says 🚫Blocking is my passion project🚫 😂 The block lists were a thing of beauty. A whole package of "No the fuck I will not engage with you."

Didn't the literal vice president of the united states try this? Good times.

I loved that period. Second only to the Enlightenment IMO.

They hate Will Stancil because he was able to build a Bsky presence and gets to annoy the people they want to annoy

But why does Jd Vance still have an account here, assuming it's not a troll?

And then ran home crying.

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I was an Elder before people who said they were things before they were cool was cool.

X-ennials: Warrior Princesses.

Xennials: old enough to not give a shit who you are; young enough to fight fascism.

I feel called out

Yeah, I use blocks generously every day. I know I'm not alone. "Nuke from orbit!" I like that. I only noticed recently that NPR articles were being carpet-bombed with tired "tone trolling". I've taken to calling it out; if they try to push back, I hide their replies and block them.

We're not afraid we are just tired, like when an ADHD toddler keeps telling you the same story or showing you the same toy over and over again after a long day at work, but without the inherent endearing qualities of an actual child you love and care about

Great isn’t it?

It was a delight to watch happen in real time.

The fact that the platform actually makes you work for your audience makes it more organically authentic and just shows the actual limits of ragebaiting.

and the block lists! dont forget about the block lists!

Also, as far as numbers, remember that No Kings protests got like 5 million people and the fascist mini-march in DC had like 500. They are not popular people.

Always funny to see people be reminded the Internet is fundamentally no different from a glorified landline. You can *always* hang up on them.

and then the BTS-crowd came here, and were all super nice

It was deeply satisfying to block nearly every federal department in less than ten minutes last fall when they all set up Bluesky accounts at once. (Not the @cpsc.gov , though; they were here earlier!)

And then I will march on to mastodon

German right-wingers/trolls/fascists tried again a few months ago. They all got blocked so hard, they left with their tails between their legs.

It’s the only way to be sure.

It was delicious and definitely part of why I’m still here ❤️

I haven't seen one of the buggers in quite a while.

There were whole lists, even if you didn't want to list block, they were useful in culling.

Oh, my favorite blocks!

Maybe it’s my near total lack of self-esteem, but I have never understood the need for certain people to feel superior to others.

As @cait.bsky.social put it, "Here's your little trophy 🏆 Whoops, you can't see it."

“If you block me it proves that circles are indeed squares. This is a mere taste of the irrational patterns of thought you will drive yourself crazy trying to untangle if you do decide to debate me.”

It's a win-win situation all around. They get to enjoy their "intellectual superiority" and I don't even need to think about them ever again 😊

You can always imagine you’re superior when you’re alone.

Remember when the Trump Administration tried to flood the place and we blocked them and they more or less gave up?

I keep thinking of the end of the duel in the Shindig episode of Firefly: "You’ll have to rely on your winning personality to get women. God help you."

I’ve taken this block ethos to Reddit, and it’s made life so much easier.

Use Marge's space lasers?

Pepperidge farm remembers...

Seems more likely that he just can't say that out loud. We all know, from having been alive, that if you exclude disingenuous idiots and trolls you're largely excluding the contemporary right.

Relax fella.

That's attracting two kinds of person, so technically he's right

Yeah isn’t this just… supporting what he’s saying? They’re not trying to keep conservatives off Bluesky, they’re trying to make it impossible for fascists to take over Super different goals

Thwy didn't want the nazi site to be an exclusive club for nazi speech & ideology. They wanted it to be a place where they could mock & harrass anti-nazis with impunity and force them to take it. Being a nazi is no fun without someone to kick around.

Those were the best days.

That’s really interesting! When they were deprived of the oxygen they need to survive they stopped engaging. It was a great strategy.

I’ve built a few lists. The main one being a priority list of writers and thinkers I admire who provide good content. The only users I can’t control are commenters, but that’s fine too. That’s my role here as well. If anyone annoys me too much I mute or block. Pretty simple.

Block list? Never used one. I block or mute on a case by case basis.

Glorious

🤣

Remember when we collectively bullied Adobe off of the platform in a matter of hours?

He's probably on one of your auto-block lists. He's the number one most blocked on the site. bsky.app/profile/tcoo...

Rage-Filled Hate Terrarium would be a great high school punk band name btw

It is and if they get rid of it I am history !

I get random friends requests, and I will look at every single one. Any hint of being a bot or suspicious bullshit, automatic block. It feels good to not have to think about it.

The "insta-block" made this a much calmer corner of the Internet.

👍

The block lists! Glorious glorious block lists.

Truly the best feature here is the ability to keep my sanity while interacting.

I sometimes reply “you realize this doesn’t work like Twitter - you can’t monetize rage bait, an algorithm doesn’t promote you and adding you to shared mass block lists that anyone can access is just super fun”. Then I block them and book them.

Funny how reality has a liberal slant

prrrrrrrreach!!!

There's a whole list of US gov accounts from the day they joined, it's lovely, never saw a peep out of them.

You will rarely find a honest debate on the main feed of a social media platform. Very, very VERY rarely

This is why it's extremely important to curate your feed ☺️ I follow some ppl I disagree with some or even most of the time, simply because they're intelligent and _argue in good faith_. As a result, I've had many interactions where we ended still not agreeing on a point, but without it being toxic

"I'll decide that for myself, thanks. Also, goodbye forever. :3" Love that block feature so damn much. ❤️

"Why would I want to debate you? I have zero respect for you or your stupid shitty opinions. I would rather just mock you or excise you from my life entirely."

"Welcome to BlueSky! This is why I'm blocking you." [block'

I also remember how after like 8 months of everyone moving to Bluesky, we started seeing right-wingers on twitter complaining that twitter wasn't fun anymore, because they had no one left to argue with but people who were stupider and crazier than they were.

Their worldview is based on forcing themselves on others against their will.

And the world is more pleasant, because of it.

it was very funny.

"Maoist bubble". Please. bsky.app/profile/idio...

What’s wrong with the so-called liberal bubble. I’d rather have that than facist and racist knuckleheads.

: If Bluesky becomes like Liebook (My name for Facebook), I am out of here otherwise the C.E.O. should be fired soon.

I don't think anyone uses it but i still block almost entirely through my own lists so others can also block entire batches of people if they trust my judgement :p but some of the popular banlists fast tracked the traction vaccum those fucks were allowed to get.. Aside from topping the ban charts :p

Noooo! I left the sewer called X, precisely because I wanted a calmer, less aggressive and more polite home (I know, I know, Bluesky has its moments too). Leave the haters to X, and leave us alone.

Reality has a liberal bias. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/o...

When people complain about left-wing dogpiles, they should remember that they have all the same tools that the rest of us used to shut down right-wing dogpiles. I suspect a lot of them are worried that it would hurt engagement.

VCs like a certain type.

I honestly appreciate a "liberal bubble," because we are daily assaulted with a MAGA bubble.

Welp, there's another one for the "well-heeled men ruin everything" stack of stuff.

Enshittification protocol engaged.

Oh yeah, they'll keep right on complaining. Every time they do, they get the same cheerful canned answer.

bsky.app/profile/farw...

Enshittyfication coming quickly

So underrated how important it is to be able to learn in the comments instead of argue in good faith with narratives weaponized to try to kill you

Because they're miserable people, and their inability to slather their misery on us giving them the sads.

lol me too !

You're welcome.

funny how that goes

Sure it might harm some feeds but I mostly use the following feed and I imagine most people do so and in that case then it doesnt matter who else is on the app