There's so much text here I don't know how to alt text it but it's a list of 17 bluesky block lists I'm on because I'm a evil cryptofash tankie authoritarian trump supporting jill stein voting blah blah blah and it looks like I got on an anti-ukraine list somehow?

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    what's funny is this is just another Twitter thing that Bluesky just copied. I've been on a list on Twitter called 'Mattress Tweets' for like a decade now and I've seen people on Twitter do things like put you on a list they've created called 'Big Idiots' or something along those lines. Bluesky users have just, for whatever reason, decided this is also worth doing lmao

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    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 days ago

      On bluesky what do these lists exactly do? Like are they meant as a way to view a curated timeline and people have found a way to use them as blocklists? Or is it explicitly meant to be a blocklist?

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        5 days ago

        afaik your replies and any top-level posts you make won't appear on their feed at all.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          5 days ago

          Nope. They work the same way they do on twitter - they're meant to be lists of accounts you DO want to see tweets of. People have just curated them as blocklists, which the Bluesky API allows.

          https://docs.bsky.app/docs/tutorials/user-lists

          • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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            4 days ago

            for anyone not wanting to click that link, but wants technical details:

            The list object has a purpose property, which can be curatelist (curation, feed) or modlist (mute/block).