[FreeTrade]

Muting is fine, blocking is censorship. You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)

[paulgb]

You already could have a client that treats a block as a mute. Easier to just open an incognito tab though.

> In theory, a bad actor could create their own rogue client or interface which ignores some of the blocking behaviors, since the content is posted to a public network. But showing content or notifications to the person who created the block won’t be possible, as that behavior is controlled by their own PDS and client.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation

[FreeTrade]

From that document -

>creation of reply posts, quote posts, embeds, and mentions are blocked;

This is the unmitigable censorship that can't be removed without decentralization.

[ChicagoDave]

I’d argue this one feature is the core reason Bluesky has 30 million users.

[FreeTrade]

There is no doubt censorship is popular. It's not for me though.

[ChicagoDave]

The users are doing the blocking, not Bluesky.

We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists.

It’s my individual right to avoid assholes.

Not censorship.

[FreeTrade]

That's what your mute is for. 100% support that.

Bluesky preventing users from replying to your posts on your say-so. Yup, there's a word for that.

[ChicagoDave]

Yeah, it’s called harassment.