You know. Today really cemented why even though I've had a bluesky invite for several weeks now I haven't used it
See. Today some pro life asshole came in and started concern trolling me. And then I found out he came from an instance of Christians who were all very sad their chicken sandwich place wasn't bigoted enough against gays anymore
And despite the fact that I'm just a user the things I could do to keep myself and my community safe were
1. Block the guy and his entire instance
2. Notify my server's mods so they could decide to silence or defederate (they did)
3. Make a post recommending other users vulnerable to their bullshit instance block them
4. Recommend that mods/admins from other instances silence/defederate
In essence, I encountered a problem on the fediverse and could take decisive action to protect myself and others by having the problem get yeeted into the void. One minute I had a problem, the next myself and many others didn't. You don't get that anywhere else
@eniko I want to try BlueSky mainly because I always wanna try out the new toys. Isn't the whole point of it to also be decentralized and have the benefits you mention here? I am still a big Mastodon champion though and find it frustrating that it hasn't taken off more and the BlueSky seems to have more buzz in the general population simply because of it's Twitter associations.
@HeathAllyn @eniko Yeah I think the idea was it would be even better than fediverse/mastodon in this respect – you pick your own algorithm or whatever; a la #ProtocolsNotPlatforms
