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My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read.

The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XBlock rather than the bsky.app mod team. https://bsky.app/profile/xblock.aendra.dev

I assume that more moderation services will get plugged in as the site grows. It's an interesting model/protocol/service.

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I use both of them. My experience is that they are sort of mirror images on opposing ends of the political spectrum. I don't want to see politics at all, so for now Bluesky is inferior because it has way fewer people in my interest areas.

1. The quality of pictures is lower than on Twitter, which I was using mostly for porn

2. Blocking someone prevents that person from even seeing your posts, which means that from the perspective of a lurker, it's best not to follow anyone, not to engage with anyone at all, not to make anyone aware of your existence, because 1% of people you follow will block you just because they're having a bad day

3. The Python client makes baby Jesus cry

1. Sorry for you

2. Don’t almost all blocks behave that way? Twitter’s always did. Seems Elon, in his infinite social acuity, has confused “block” with “mute?” Vast majority of users want to be able to actually “block” people

3. Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby

> Don’t almost all blocks behave that way?

> Baby Jesus cries very easily, he’s a baby

I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying

> I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying

You might have been distracted attending more immediate matters, Mr. Anal_Reactor.

> No

That's how Twitter's block always worked before the advent of Naughty Old Mr Car. It's also how the block on every social media thing I can think of works.

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