A week or so ago, BlueSky posted about penalizing dogpiling and harassment on the platform. And while I think that’s absolutely a great idea, I don’t love the fact that it seems to be focused on after-the-fact enforcement. The BlueSky/Atmosphere philosophy seems like it should be focused on user control of their experience, managing their use of specific safety mechanisms.
So, in the spirit of “making things is the best way to complain”, I built a very rough “BlueSky circuit breaker”: https://github.com/ajdecon/bsky-circuit-breaker
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