Well thats a good enough reason to avoid it.
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My BS handle is Pames Jearce.
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There were major issues with twitter prior to Musk buying it. Massive trolling and online bullying led to a huge rise in teen/youth suicide numbers for (I think) maybe up to 10 years before Musk.
But it has definitely felt more toxic since, but lets not forget that twitter had major problems before hand
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Bluesky has a fascinating function called blocklists, where people can subscribe to a list to block, which should help with filtering out trolls, although I suppose it can also end up being used for cyberbullying.
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Never understood blocking people, if you want to interact with only the people who agree with you, whatās the point?
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This is very true, but you can trace a direct line to Muskās decision to buy it from the conservative politically motivated response to what attempts Twitter made under Dorsey and Parag to manage that toxicity with moderation.
It is a genuinely hard problem to solve, made much harder by how inextricably linked the process becomes with politics. But I dont think twitter, Dorsey especially, ever really wanted to seriously grapple with it. If there was legitimacy to the conservative complaints it was because Tiwtter never found a clear approach and so their moderation felt ad hoc, but it was clear they were doing something. The fact Muskās acquisition resulted in a mass reactivation of a substantial list of previously banned accounts that were openly racist, white supremisict, and/or fascist makes the contrast clear.
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Itās not something I generally do. If Iām bored with someone, Iāll mute them. Blocking is only worthwhile if an individual resorts to abuse.
Blocking on Bluesky is fairly severe, and it can mess up other peopleās timeline. Having said that, if someone blocks and then replies to the blocked poster, you get to see the fume but with no idea what they are fuming about, which can be quite funny.
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How so?
You can get a discussion thread that is mostly interesting. Someone blocks someone else further up and you canāt see the start or the end of the conversation.
Actually, I wonder if they had fixed it, because I havenāt seen it for a while and it was very annoying.
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It should be pointed out that blocking vs āonly interacting with only the people who agree with youā is very obviously a false binary fallacy.
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And specifically a fallacy that enables trolls and bullies.
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Clearly, if you think the only reason it is done is to be with likeminded people. 
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Female with a public profile: says something milquetoast
Rando Twitter account: You must die you ******* **** and when you do I will **** your fucking eye socket
Female with public profile: isnāt it great engaging with people who dont see the world the same way you do. It is very enlightening. I am better for this exchange of diverse ideas and view points.
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Anyone I chose to block or ignore on social media isnāt because I disagree with them. Itās because the have reached the point where I have realised they are just a fucking troll treating me as sport for their own amusement, and I canāt be arsed with it.
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You canāt see someoneās posts on here if youāve blocked them.
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Unless you are a mod/adminā¦
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I thought about that, but then Iāve never let facts get in the way of a joke lol
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Did someone say/post something that your responding to @Arminius ? because I canāt see anything
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