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The big one seems to be BlueSky

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I don't like BlueSky, but at least they don't seem to be kowtowing to governments requesting censorship and aiding political candidates like Twitter does, so I guess it's a step up.

[–] silence7 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That honestly sounds pretty good. But there are no followers on Lemmy, so the mechanism wouldn't make much sense here.

[–] silence7 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Has that ever happened, though? I rarely see Mastodon comments here at all...

[–] silence7 9 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

There is still trolling and stalking. On Mastodon, blocking prevents the blocked person from seeing or replying to posts (while logged in) at least.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

But it'd be better if they were bringing that to the Fediverse instead of reinventing the wheel with ATP.

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