The block lists work both ways though. Yeah, it’s cool you can hit the “block the Nazis” button and it just does it. But say anything vaguely socialist, supportive of animal rights, etc and you’re getting put on the “commie vegan freak” list by some shithead that is going to cut you off from a significant portion of the site because people subscribe to those things without any real thought.
Yeah absolutely. I have no problem if people who subscribe to those sorts of lists block me out, I don’t use social media for outreach to strangers so the less liberals who see my posts the better, but it’s absolutely something to consider. And there have been numerous malicious blocklists where the creator will call it a nazi list and it’s actually a bunch of leftist trans folks or whatever. It’s not a feature that works without strong per-instance moderation, which bsky absolutely doesn’t have.
The block lists work both ways though. Yeah, it’s cool you can hit the “block the Nazis” button and it just does it. But say anything vaguely socialist, supportive of animal rights, etc and you’re getting put on the “commie vegan freak” list by some shithead that is going to cut you off from a significant portion of the site because people subscribe to those things without any real thought.
Yeah absolutely. I have no problem if people who subscribe to those sorts of lists block me out, I don’t use social media for outreach to strangers so the less liberals who see my posts the better, but it’s absolutely something to consider. And there have been numerous malicious blocklists where the creator will call it a nazi list and it’s actually a bunch of leftist trans folks or whatever. It’s not a feature that works without strong per-instance moderation, which bsky absolutely doesn’t have.