There’s so much text here I don’t know how to alt text it but it’s a list of 17 bluesky block lists I’m on because I’m a evil cryptofash tankie authoritarian trump supporting jill stein voting blah blah blah and it looks like I got on an anti-ukraine list somehow?
I think there’s a way to merge blocklists together. So if you didn’t post anything about Ukraine - some rando might have grabbed your name from an existing list and stuck you into their anti-Ukraine list because you’re a leftist who posts. Bluesky libs are pathetic in their blocking/muting fetish.
Yeah it’s a fascinating sociology experiment. They’re not curating their own blocks when they’re using lists, so they’re subscribing to someone else’s whims. I think they’re going to end up in smaller and smaller silo’d microcommunities and we’re going to get old Tumblr levels of bizarre niche cultures where people just develop incredible beliefs.
Like they have no idea how important it was that everyone was angry at everyone on Twitter to keep the culture mill churning. Without that constant hostility Bsky is going to be a very different experience. Maybe pleasant for some, but it’s also not going to drive hte kind of virality that people are used to where there are big twitter moments everyone participates in.
I think it’s funny that solidarity is needed more than ever yet they’re going to do their version of punching left even harder. And it’s the most liberal way of punching left possible. No fuss. No bother. No scraped knuckles. They click a few links and let the code do all the work. It’s like anti-solidarity.