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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 22/09/2024

I was interviewed by BlueSky when it was announced (and I'm still bitter they didn't listen to me). One thing I tried to get across was that protocols need to be designed *with* users. Especially marginalised or vulnerable users. BSky's public bocking is technically clever, but socially poisonous.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 23/09/2024

BSky's super-block is brilliant. It cuts off bad-actors instantly. I think the level of discourse here is much better than on other places. But it achieves this by publishing your block lists for everyone to see. And there's *nothing* about it in their privacy policy bsky.social/about/suppor...

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 10/11/2024

There's no way to remove a follower on BlueSky. If someone follows you, and then you block them… they're still following you! Unblock them and they show up in your followers list. (How long before someone replies to say "This Is Very Good And Users Expect This Actually"?)

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

There absolutely should be something in their privacy policy, and they should warn people that blocks are public. What worries me is that malicious actors could scour public block lists to impute social or political attitudes to people.

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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

The problem with keeping blocks private is that they still have public effects, which are necessarily visible to other servers (appviews) which in an open network mean you can't really hide it from users either. Either stuff like quote posts gets detached by blocks everywhere, or they don't

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