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BlueSky is the only place where I have ever received death threats, the only place where I ended in multiple blocklists for upsetting god knows whom, and the only place where I had to block hundreds of accounts to avoid getting porn and questionable furry stuff in the main timeline, even with moderation on.

But it seems to work fine for a particular brand of extremely online people.

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No one wants to talk to everyone on the planet at once except extremely online people anymore, that initial burst of enthusiasm from normies 10-15 years ago was borne from naivety and will never happen again.

Also every platform will get a burst of extremely online people trying to build an audience at the initial stages of its lifecycle. Discord seems to be the only place that doesn't fall into this trap because it's basically private clubs, and not about seeking attention at all times.

Out of curiosity, what action on your part caused the death threats?

Complaining about porn (mostly gay/trans/furry stuff, although even the straight kind is NOT something I want on my phone when idly scrolling on a bus or a train in public, or ever really) routinely ending in the default timeline, which is apparently a capital offense threatening the livelihood of sex workers and furry "artists".

I hate it when I manually opt in to adult content and then adult content shows up on my timeline. The fact that only way to avoid it is to just use the app as it is out of the box is a design flaw

Reread, this is with moderation on. And I only followed a bunch of other electronics nerds.

That’s odd. I’ve used bsky for several months along with 5-6 friends and none of us has ever had an issue with explicit content with moderation on. Coming from Twitter the overall content isn’t particularly shocking, though if you’re coming from Threads it is less tame than that.

Out of curiosity, who were you complaining about the porn to? I’ve seen quite a few dogpiles on accounts that register and then proceed to reply en masse to every account they dislike.

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