The big one seems to be BlueSky

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    I don’t like BlueSky, but at least they don’t seem to be kowtowing to governments requesting censorship and aiding political candidates like Twitter does, so I guess it’s a step up.

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      What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

      The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

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        That honestly sounds pretty good. But there are no followers on Lemmy, so the mechanism wouldn’t make much sense here.

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          People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

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              I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

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          There is still trolling and stalking. On Mastodon, blocking prevents the blocked person from seeing or replying to posts (while logged in) at least.

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        But it’d be better if they were bringing that to the Fediverse instead of reinventing the wheel with ATP.

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      I thought I read elsewhere that a fair amount were trying Mastodon too. I take both as wins, given that they could have chosen Threads or Facebook.