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Elena Rossini ⁂Nov 25, 2024

A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts a user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (by @cwebber)

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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Shanie MyrsTear

@_elena Impressively bad implementation based on their reasoning. This is a solved problem on Mastodon. Guess it's a weakness to the AT Protocol since all those "data banks" need to communicate with the master server. Oops.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.