[krapp]

Unfortunately, Bluesky being the "popular" alternative just means it's going to turn to shit faster.

I have an account there because so many people seem to be moving from Twitter to Bluesky instead of Mastodon, for understandable reasons, but I expect Bluesky to be be awash in bots, AI and Nazis within a year. That's just the way things go now.

[tmottabr]

I dont think it will because the moderation tools available to people are better and actually work..

If i block someone they are gone from my timeline, their replies are gone from my posts even to other people..

If someone re-post me and i don't like the context i can go there and "disconnect" my post from their re-post..

Also Bluesky has public block lists anyone can create and sign-up for, those accounts would be noticed very fast and included in some block list if they start getting any traction..

So while it is not impossible for those accounts to exist, it is much harder for then to get traction..

And if they get traction it is much easier to hide then from our and our followers view..

[rsynnott]

One consequence of naughty ol’ Mr Car’s ascension to the Bird Throne was that mass-blocking lists, which were always a bit of a hack but somewhat worked, became unusable. Bluesky has blocklists as a first-class function; it will be awash with Nazis, but you won’t have to look at them unless you want to. AI slop may be trickier, but that’s really a challenge the whole web is facing at the moment.