Please Note! #Block #Blocked #Blocking #BlockList #BlockLists Suspect Scam Account, Reported & Blocked. New, non-Verified Account: @kashpatel85.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Not hosted on an FBI Server, Claims to be #FBI Using a fake ’Special Agent’ FBI Seal … liked my post: bsky.app/profile/b7bi...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bgse2k6gs72yadkmdvftbk6y/post/3mdgzj2tpck2y

@Tutanota Could you please inform someone on the technical teams, that Outlook.com is blocking pretty much all of Tuta's sending IP's. Perhaps do some tricks to get yourselves off the block list(s) they use.
#tuta #EmailSecurity #BlockLists

@gunchleoc @ceremus @randahl Granted, these issues are also on #AntisocialMedia and not new.

• Ask @antidiskriminierung why they left #Shitter, and it's mostly because #ApartheidEmeraldBoy & #SwastiCar-Corp owner decided that "#Moderation is for loosers"...https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116000461559125438

Any service that allows #UserGeneratedContent and #Comments without allowlisting beforehand has the statistical inevitability to be abused for #CSAM, #malware and #piracy.

• At least it's trivial to add #Blocklists in #Mastodon, now the devs need to pull their thumbs out their asses and enable blocklist feed support for good...

Bluesky is An Ontological Space for Sadomasochism, Trolling, & Schadenfreude

So, during the initial exodus from Twitter after it became X following Elon Musk’s purchase, many people left but kept their accounts, purposefully to bully, surveil, antagonize, and troll others. People—including me—moved to Bluesky, Mastodon, or both, and used their Twitter accounts purely for harassment and similar behavior. Essentially, X became the place you went to act like a dumpster fire. Because most people within occult niches are highly toxic, I tend to not only block them but also block anyone they follow for reasons I’m about to explain.

I really only use that account to criticize occulture, post nudes, or share YouTube videos. Since I’m aware of fed posting, I avoid commenting on political topics or anarchist discourse on the Clearnet. Keep that in mind. If you scroll through my profile, you’ll see me poking fun at chaotes, posting nudes, gushing about or complaining about my husband, sharing dating horror story YouTube videos, or pet grooming videos. If you look at my likes, you’ll only see gay porn, mathematics papers, engineering papers, etc. There’s no mention of anything political, especially genocides.

There was a person I’d never interacted with who was part of a starter pack for occultists. I blocked them. Then I woke up this morning to find I was added to this list:

Chomsky Honks
Genocide apologist posting cringe from a Starbucks as it burns down around them

So, with all that in mind, these occultists I’ve never interacted with added me to a list. I am neither invested in Bluesky nor strongly connected to their network, primarily because I block almost everyone on it and don’t ever look at any feeds whatsoever, including the Home, followers, or Discover feeds. Therefore, the posts I do interact with are from pockets of people way outside my network. It’s kind of like driving to the bathhouse in Atlanta from a small town in Bubbafuck, Georgia, because everyone in your small town is garbage. Same idea, ontologically.

Honestly, I don’t care, because I’ve mostly moved back to Mastodon and blog more.

What they’ve done is implicitly a form of defamation, because they feel slighted and justified in defaming someone they don’t know, simply because a stranger they’ve never spoken to blocked them. I tend to do a basic block on anyone who blocks me, because if you’ve decided you don’t want to see me, there’s probably no good-faith reason for us to engage in the future. It’s likely there’s some malicious intent later on. As you can see with this, I was correct.

So, in order for them to know I blocked them, they had to continuously check who had blocked them, and they believe people who block them should be punished through bullying. Since the description of the list doesn’t fit me, they retaliated out of malice. The idea behind these cliques is pretty simple: they feel threatened by anyone who rejects their normative statements because it means they are being rejected, and they view any form of dissent as an existential threat. As a result, they believe people who reject them, set boundaries, or dissent from the consensus of their culture need to be punished, and the AT protocol provides convenient tools for brigading. Ironically, these people are anti-fascist yet have a very Christian-like evangelical way of viewing the world. The lack of insight is pretty funny.

I’m the child of cult leaders and members with Cluster B personalities, so I’m not clutching my pearls, especially since I’m already set up elsewhere outside of Bluesky. They do not have the means to impose significant consequences on me, so I find it amusing. I genuinely find it funny how they eat each other. I’m not calling anyone to action—I’m just enjoying the fire.

This person wasn’t aware of who I was. We never interacted, and being added to a list that defames me happened directly after I blocked them without any prior interaction. I saw their account from the firehose and wasn’t algorithmically presented with it, meaning we’re not even in the same clique. Now, if they had said something like “spams hashtags, trolls, makes alts,” that would make sense.

When you look at it for what it is, they wanted to defame, disparage, and brigade—punitive actions because they interpreted a boundary as hostile. This is projection, as they are weaponizing a mechanism to enforce boundaries. Do I care? No. I’m just pointing out how it turned its predecessor, X, into what it is now. It became a place for people to harass others, not a space for genuine, good-faith discussions, connections, or even debates. That is not my interpretation.

Well, to anyone who knows, you might ask: Did they block you because you have a particular reputation? No. I am a Web 1.0 mage, so the networks I’m known in have roots and associations in the old forums. The occulture people who have fixated on me for years go all the way back to Wizard Forums, the psionics forums, the unsolved mystery forums, etc., from the early 2000s. If you’re a circa 2016 social media influencer mage, you probably wouldn’t know me—primarily because the moment I see you, I’ll block you. There’s also a moderation block list just for me and my alts.

This behavior is typical of the culture on Bluesky, so much so that it’s a common complaint people now have—many no longer view block lists as legitimate moderation tools. People are being advised to be skeptical of lists with a large number of people.

Oh, I’m not playing the victim here. I don’t care, because I could easily get back at them. I’m infamously vindictive and petty. More importantly, it supports my point and vindicates me. I’m not signaling victimhood; rather, I’m pointing out a culture, albeit one I participate in. Tying this back to my initial point: part of what signaled the death of Twitter as a serious forum and its transformation into X was the bullying. A while ago, I did a phylogenetic memetic analysis that basically showed how the culture on Bluesky is highly derivative of image boards. But don’t you bully and troll people? Yes, yes, I do – on Bluesky, and the lack of moderation and culture enable it. That’s my point.

Bluesky is an accelerationist and reactionary platform that gives you the tools to surveil and harass people. The developers of Bluesky and the AT Protocol have explicitly said they are technological accelerationists and libertarians. I’m not virtue signaling here; rather, I am saying Bluesky is a reactionary platform, so its culture should be understood as performative, hostile, and adversarial—not cooperative or collaborative. Just like Twitter. You can’t do what I do on Bluesky on the fediverse, because the culture won’t allow it.

You saw this type of behavior on Tumblr, where the population carrying the memetics of that culture migrated to Twitter and now Bluesky. Essentially, Bluesky became a place where malice, bullying, and hostile behavior became so normalized that I’m not even upset about lists being weaponized like this. For example, I’m not posting this on Bluesky, and I, myself, have bullied people on Bluesky. But I behave myself on Mastodon. I am using myself as an example. The trolling is happening on Bluesky. The thoughtful posts are happening on Mastodon. The blog this will be posted on is federated, so this is being posted to the fediverse.

That’s what happened to Twitter. It started normalizing hostile, toxic behavior, so that people left the platform and only returned to Twitter for schadenfreude. I have my own WordPress fediverse instance. I am just on Bluesky for the schadenfreude.

#Mastodon and the #Fediverse has perhaps a more advanced #quotePost regulation than #Bluesky, by way of its active encouragement of federation.

Now if only Mastodon and the Fediverse had shared personal #blocklists of individual users like Bluesky...

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

#Welcome, NewSkys! Something you'll encounter here is Lists. You can make them yourself, easily. Some people make blocklists, which let you block or mute everyone on them. Be careful which ones you use! Some people make them maliciously. You could end up blocking people you like. #blocklists #tips

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xuhebwpr4ntk2yal6svbpljd/post/3mawpmxjlqs2c

Pour le positif : les #blocklists c'est un bon indicateur pour repérer les apprentis fascistes précoces, de gauche comme de droite. #MJDC #MJDR ;) ;) ;) Sur ce réseau, c'est VOUS qui choisissez ! 💜

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pnbwtg6jabnxneimfim2w6zd/post/3mavu5ebeqc2y

@zalintyre @marcel @cryptoparty joa, zumal automatische #Blocklists gut funktionieren.

• Siehe @spamhaus / #Spamhaus, @stratosphere / #Stratosphere und weitere...

@mattblaze I love my keyword filters or #blocklists. Some people or hashtags I follow also post and contain things I don't care about at all. Nothing outrageous, imo, my two main lists block lots of sports and as much generated slop as I can block😋

Sometimes things are not caught and I'm happy to add to my lists, while keeping up to speed on everything else these good people talk about.

The bestest thing is that the others can enjoy discussing, for example, sports to their heart's content ☺️

@stratosphere apparently your #blocklists are down for quite some time.

• Is this intentional or accidential?

https://www.stratosphereips.org/blog/2024/10/30/aip-v300-is-here
https://www.stratosphereips.org/blog/2023/8/4/generating-your-own-blocklists-with-the-stratosphere-aip-framework

#ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #TreatModelling #blocklisting #NetworkSecurity #Firewalling

#Fediverse #Blocklists: #Moderation in Noncapitalist #SocialMedia

> the paper explores how fediverse blocklist developers attempt to mitigate the problems of lists while also generating knowledge about content moderation

@rwg York University

2025-09-20: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1556

#SciComm #WissKomm #FediModeration #CulturalStudies #SocialScience #SocialMedia #ContentModeration

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I should be clear that my #personalopinion is that any user or server should be able to subscribe to #blocklists and #allowlists, built into the APIs. Servers should be able to run allow-only or block-only.

These features should be required for product entry in this space.

#blocklist #blocklistsubscription

@meljoann oooo, I really like that you can create lists and host them wherever you want too. I've been using GoToSocial for months and I had no idea this feature was a thing :3

I know it's been very slow and not inclusive enough, but seeing fedi slowly adopt new moderation features has been nice. I'm thankful for the marginalized people who have demanded these features for years. Without them, none of this stuff would exist. Good on GoToSocial for prioritizing this in beta too :blue_heart_sparkles:

It will also be interesting to see if it can work with FASP, so that mastodon admins can also setup a service to relay them.

#GoToSocial #blocklists #fediadmins #fediadmin #moderation

@thisismissem

#moderation is a shit job. always was, always will be. it's a human problem, no tech can dispel the chore. someone always has to be there, moderating

of course tooling can help immensely. the tooling shifts and manages the chore. that shift can be in good ways. also maybe unintentional bad ways

you know all this

i'm just laying it out so i can say:

on #bluesky, and on #mastodon, as you say, #blocklists create new terrible problems

i'm saying this tooling shift is a bad idea

This kind of came a bit unexpectedly today, but I have a new article out:

https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1556

It focuses on those most controversial moderation tools on the #fediverse: #blocklists. I consider the philosophy and practice of listing to argue that those who run blocklist services work hard to mitigate their problems.

I also make a case that we simply need more scholarship on content moderation on #noncentralized, noncommercial social media.

#alternativeSocialMedia

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