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The people who treat practicing good mental health with toxicity are the people you practice it on. That's my belief. 🙏

and instead of doing some self-reflection into why that is they just blame everyone else...

This for real

Thats why I love bluesky. I just thought ai accounts avoided this site. No, I just forgot I subscribed to a block list and just never see it. Same with certain politics and things i just dont like. I feel like I would be drowning on twitter in bad news

Real. As others have already mentioned, muting words does wonders, too. Still having trouble with posts that have images I don't want on my feed, but I don't come across those too often. I typically just block the accounts that'll post images with no text / alt text so their post doesn't get hidden.

is like people don't know what transform a social media is. Something or someone is frustrating, terrorizing or simply you don't want to watch, hear o read? Silence or block, is THAT simple, we could be better if everyone did that

Same plus the disable trends feature too

It's great being a literal nobody on the internet that can block anyone else without starting drama.

Bluesky just only lacks one more, mute reposts. I find it weird that the site has so many "personal quality of life" features like disabling quote replies yet it didn't have it.

Seriously, sanitise your feeds. It's like washing your hands IRL, humankind needs to learn to use social media safely. "Social media is so bad for you" - me, with a feed full of cool art and cute girls "Huh??"

Amen to that.

The best options >w<

More people should know about this feature! 😂

To expand on this: Muting words and tags from WITHIN a post is so nice.

Came from a time where people get harrassed for blocking somebody. Wished I used these buttons earlier.

Feel like I must explain by what I mean by "too confusing" Sometimes I see someone crack an ironic joke under a political post, but it sounds too genuine. Go look at their profile and they're not clear on what they believe in politically, but resume this "edging" through irony humor

This!!! Back in the FB days the second someone posted something that predicted a character arc I don’t have the capacity for, they got the 30d mute and I’d see how they are after

One of the consequences of being in an era where people are either so conflict averse or conflict *hungry* is that neither really knows how to healthily walk away from conflict and guage whether or not it was even worth the stress to begin with People do gotta learn to just mute and take a breather

oh really? nice! i guess what i mean is something closer to the middle like... i dont see their posts unless they @ me. and i do still see DMs. is that how it works? or maybe i can see them if i seek them out but i dont get notifications?

muting also isn’t tracked afaik at least on clearsky so you can use it safely

it literally is that easy

Yeah, the secret came out I'm afraid, I use those too

Muted words and tags also help a lot.

Big fan of the block and mute. I talk to folks sometimes who complain about wasting hours of their time arguing with some online troll. Why did you do that? You don't owe anyone your time and attention. Set your own boundaries and enforce them.

You forgot about "hide post"

TRULY!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN HOW TO USE THE BLOCK AND MUTE BUTTONS WAY MORE OFTEN PLEASE USE THESE BUTTONS PEOPLE

It really does. You have to block things out to keep sane in a world like today.

I do this like, a lot and apparently some people get really angry at me for it and create plans to try to ruin my life because they think it's rude lol

I'm glad at least part of the internet has moved past the idea that "having to block someone means you lost the internet argument." It was always a toxic mindset, but it's becoming more acceptable to block people instead of starting or continuing arguments (at least on Bluesky).

unlike on twitter and discord these actaully work here

Yeah, I have one California Liberal who is denying the cruelty of the homeless sweeps that is so close to a mute right now.

Love to just block or mute people if I don’t like what they post, full on Hideki Kamyia

Don't forget this gem

Oh right, I forgot that was a thing

My one cool trick is that throughout my life I've been given such a vast reserve of spite that I don't fuckin care lmao.

Mute filters are also huge! Be cavalier with them, it seriously saves your mental health not seeing every single persons' every single thought about [insert person or topic here you care about but don't need to constantly think about]

People need to learn to curate their feeds with this one simple trick! Frfr tho it's so helpful