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I'm one of those millions of people that joined Bluesky in the past couple of weeks.

It's.. great. At least the feed I have feels very early-2010s internet before all the hate and weirdness. This may go away as others join but it seems bsky really has thought this through too. They not only have starter packs like this but you can use the same thing as "block-lists". Idk if twitter has that but wow it's nice to know I can just ignore like a hundred neo-nazi accounts with the click of a button and literally never have to interact with them.

To be honest though, I haven't even had to. I don't see their content rising to the top of my feed like I know is happening on X.

I have been called a nazi for stating that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. So I am probably on one of your lists.

I too think the existence of stupid people who misuse a word means that all uses of that word are unreliable.

People should have the right to control the information flow to themselves in such a platform, for any reason they want. Neither you nor me nor anybody is owed any attention by OP or anyone. Attention is a personal resource and it is not owed to anybody. Having a platform that actually facilitates this level of control is amazing. As much as I am for the freedom of speech and expression in these platforms, I am also for the freedom of deciding whether one wants to be subjected or not to somebody else's expression, and both are irrespective to how I feel about the specific speech or expression or reasons behind any of these.

I am highlighting the problem with relying on lists, rather than making an informed decision individually. Of course, there is convenience in that, and everyone should do whatever they want. However, BS is very quickly becoming an echo-chamber worse than Reddit.

This is kind of true, I do not like either the block lists or the follow lists, also because it is not that hard to just block the occasional person I do not want to see in my feeds. But if it was harder for me to block on person basis, eg if it is too many ppl to block, I would rather rely on lists like that.

You do have to consider the provenance of the lists, of course.

> Idk if twitter has that but wow it's nice to know I can just ignore like a hundred neo-nazi accounts

Twitter _kind_ of _had_ this, informally, via third-party tools, but Carface largely broke them with API changes and more recently neutering blocking as a concept.

Where's my hot-takes and memeable scathing replies starter pack?

This starter pack was made by a journalist at the Onion, so you might start there: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/junlper.beer/3l7cqtbzngh2o

Thanks!

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