Threads has a massive problem in that it recruits its users from Instagram (there are others but primarily its still a branch of Instagram) which is the domain of AI generated slop and people I actually know in real life.

The whole point of the twitter style firehose is to be not be either of those things. Bluesky honestly probably has a decent shot but I think its still attracting some hyper-orthodox, censorious, thinkers. Musk has gone too far with X[0] but I don't think his vision in the abstract is wrong.

[0] Every accusation is a confession - X is now near-directly attached to the US Gov!

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cosmic_cheese 7 months ago | parent [-]

I think the Bluesky crowd will probably chill out with time, but right now if you don’t readily use the block feature there you’re going to have your feed and notifications peppered with the same trolls that are currently making X inhospitable. The majority of users getting blocked aren’t interested in actual discourse, they’re just there to get a rise out of people.

It’s difficult to envision any social network staying healthy in the long term without either decent moderation or robust tools to help users manage harassment and the like. There’s just too many bad actors who will take advantage of low-control environments.

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skybrian 7 months ago | parent [-]

> inevitable

I don't get any trolls on either platform. I guess I'm too boring :)

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cosmic_cheese 7 months ago | parent [-]

I don’t get much trouble myself personally either, but it shows up in the replies to the posts in my feed which isn’t great and why a good block feature is necessary.

	▲	skybrian 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but the root cause is that Twitter doesn't stop rendering posts when there are no replies left to display. Instead it fills the silence with posts that aren't replies. BlueSky just stops, like a normal program. When there's nothing more to show, silence is okay. So I don't need a blocklist there.