MagicShel comments on Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If it had changed to be trans and islamiaphobes

It hasn't. Or the block lists I'm using are fucking amazing.

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[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

From what I gather, the admins could be stepping in more like they do on Lemmy for hateful behaviors/users. If BlueSky were more federated like Lemmy, I think they would have been defederated by now for not taking direct action.

The block lists themselves work great imo and should be used universally on the Fediverse, but people do have understandable gripes with admins there for not stepping in more and are instead differing moderation to the user level tools in place.

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[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

and this is the biggest issue I have with most lemmy instances, over defederation over nothing but mean words

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[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago*

Words alone aren’t really what I’m alluding to here, more so authoritarian labels. One case which caused a decent amount of friction on BlueSky was that someone was allowed on the platform that was making harassment style content about other BlueSky users, but they shared the content off of the platform.

If it was built like Lemmy, then instances could pressure each other to be more selective for who they allow on the platform.

Often mean words aren’t the core problem, but toxic individuals or people/bots with ulterior motives on a platform. Not everyone should have the privilege of being part of a community if they can’t be decent.

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