The Main Advantage Bluesky Has Over Twitter (Besides The Obvious One)
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- Oct 19, 2024
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Well, it happened again. Elon Musk announced a big new change coming to Twitter (now X, to a small amount of people), and everyone said they were fleeing to Bluesky, which seems to have emerged as the main Twitter alternative even if Meta instantly made Threads larger in scale thanks to its Instagram and Facebook integrations.
The change this time is what is happening to the block feature, in which blocked users will now still be able to see your posts, but simply not be able to interact with them. This is again being positioned as some sort of “freedom of speech” thing.
This essentially accomplishes nothing except making it easier to enable harassment or annoyance from users that have been blocked. Even if they cannot interact with your posts directly, they can interact with your followers or other commenters they can now see, and also can easily screenshot your posts and post those on their page. Yes, it’s true that these users can already make alternate accounts, but this streamlines that whole process for them. People who are frequently blocked, often for good reason, are the ones who directly benefit from this.
Even the statement seems to admit this is "less protection" for your account
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So, another exodus of users fleeing to Bluesky, and it resulted in a surge of half a million users joining the service in a day, and over a million by now, I believe. This is after 2 million joined when Elon got Twitter banned in Brazil (which has now been reversed). But I am well aware this has happened many times, where Elon makes some bad site change, everyone says they’re leaving for Bluesky, but overwhelmingly, they stay. This happens every few months, it seems like.
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