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?
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?
afaik your replies and any top-level posts you make won't appear on their feed at all.
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
for anyone not wanting to click that link, but wants technical details:
The list object has a
purposeproperty, which can becuratelist(curation, feed) ormodlist(mute/block).