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A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!

I started Block Party because I couldn't accept that simply being online meant surrendering control — over your safety, your privacy, your data. The internet is too important to opt out of, but it shouldn’t be the danger zone that it is by default.

The first version of Block Party was a viral anti-harassment product for Twitter with tens of thousands of users and devoted paid subscribers, including accounts with 1M+ followers.

Our users raved about how we transformed their online experience, and the whole trust and safety industry took note of what was possible with a tiny, dedicated team working on problems previously thought to be "just too difficult."

Some companies pivot because they realize they're just not headed in the right direction. Other companies get smacked in the face by a brick wall that materializes out of thin air.

Our brick wall took the form of Elon Musk buying Twitter and cutting off our access to the platform.

We were forced to re-conceptualize our product and business, but we stayed true to the mission of keeping people safe online, and it was a good push to go bigger. We expanded beyond Twitter to cover 12 platforms; we expanded beyond anti-harassment to security, privacy, and content cleanup.