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Re:Bluesky is not the good place by dzhiurgis on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:07PM (#46481557)
Blocking is basically abuse nowadays in form of “coward block”. Very common in reddit, around topics about EVs (interestingly many of their usernames follow same pattern which makes me think these are malicious bots).

Basically they’ll respond to your comment with a falsehood and block you so you can’t respond (and most times won’t even see the response). Comment stays up for rest of the gang to brigade on.

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Re:Bluesky is not the good place by johnnyanmac on Sunday January 04, 2026 @03:07AM (#46485972)
That was Reddit's choice. Blocking used to be a mute function. Then in 2021 or so they changed it to "you can't participate in a conservation I'm having at any point in the chain." Everyone said it was a bad idea and one post even demonstrated how easy it'd be to abuse such a function:https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/test...

Awful idea.

All that said: Twitter stule threads are much more ephemeral. So a block isn't as impactful there.

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