[ARCHIVED] Jay on Nostr: Blockers wield a lot of power on the #bluesky platform. Not only can you destroy ...

Blockers wield a lot of power on the #bluesky platform. Not only can you destroy someone's access to you, you also destroy anyone else's ability to view your past interactions, effectively burning history in the process.

It keeps the entire platform conformist to the same set of views, because mass blocks on an account will ostracize and memory-hole them. It's the ultimate "safe-space" social network; a working prototype of a digital gulag.