It’s easier to be nontoxic when you don’t have to confront the evidence contrary to your echo chamber
Bluesky has plenty of toxic communities (e.g. the trans one), but hey are on the "good side" of the political spectrum so they get a pass.
(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
It’s well accepted that people tend to be more unpleasant online, and text doesn’t translate nuance well enough to avoid misunderstandings, no matter how many emojis are assigned to the task.
One person makes a blocklist and everyone else blindly adopts it.
In practice, shared blocklists are not utilized to stop harassment, they are utilized to enforce ideological conformity and lack of critical-thinking
As someone who generally don't do blocklists/mutes/blocking much at all, I know what approach I prefer. I like that people have a choice at least, compared to the alternative approaches.
Just saying.
... and became irrelevant about 20 years ago.