Yes, bluesky retards have a fetish for blocking. On twitter, blocking had offensive power: if an account accrues enough blocks it gets deboosted via the algorithm. Supposedly this isn't the case on Bluesky, but I'm pretty sure the "Discover" feed takes blocks into account.
To those who are new or eturning to this thread, their fondness of blocking is not just a fetish, but an entire culture.
A big reason why they left X is becaus Elon let blocked users see the publi content of those who blocked those users,
which is the same functionality other websites that have blocking functionality have. Compared to X, BlueSky has 'nuclear block' which essentially erases all of the blocked users' presence from those who blocked the user. Putting things a little gruesomely, if normal blocking is th equivalent of ripping ou the tongue and vocal chords of a user, then BlueSky's nuclear blocking is equivalen to murder,
maxing the Sin gauge, and absolute Damnatio Memoriae. From what you can see, this type of nuclear blocking alone massively increases toxicity.
However, if you ask BlueSky, they will insis tha this type of nuclear block is indispensable to a kinder, safer experience because the internet is permanently saturated with 'fascists' and 'terfs', who do not even consider you life unworthy of life, but rather will never see you a living, existing human being, hence ALL of their engagement with 'minorities' is
always wi the purpose of advancing their hateful ideologies. There is also ironically a level of dehumanisation: since they cannot comprehend how anyone cognent, let alone intelligent, can disagree wi them, they say that anyone to the right of Mao is a bot. This also leads to the
blocklists: people can compile a list of 'terfs' and 'fascists', letting you nuclear block them all at once.
Giving the above functionality to a clientele wi the above mentality narutally leads to their 'block early, block often' culture, which, rather than making a chill, cozy environment, makes a paranoiac, narcissistic environment. You simultaneously are always put on guard against even the faintest hint, say, a 'dogwhistle', of someone who wants you dead because you simply exist and ar encouraged to perform lots of very easily-done 'murders' in the name o fighting toxicity, which ultimately leads you to using the nuclear block on anyone who, say, liked Super Mario Bros 3 or got a 3-leaf clover off the sidewalk.
(Being exceptional in this moment, I realised that BlueSky is essentially recreating the
Reason of Musubi: everyone would essentially be isolating themselves away from each other and forming their own independent worlds to their own desires. Technically, there is interaction, bu the 'I am the sole centre of my world' philosophy behind BlueSky's approach to blocking means that you would essentially be talking with yourself all of the time.)