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Bluesky is An Ontological Space for Sadomasochism, Trolling, & Schadenfreude

So, during the initial exodus from Twitter after it became X following Elon Musk’s purchase, many people left but kept their accounts, purposefully to bully, surveil, antagonize, and troll others. People—including me—moved to Bluesky, Mastodon, or both, and used their Twitter accounts purely for harassment and similar behavior. Essentially, X became the place you went to act like a dumpster fire. Because most people within occult niches are highly toxic, I tend to not only block them but also block anyone they follow for reasons I’m about to explain.

I really only use that account to criticize occulture, post nudes, or share YouTube videos. Since I’m aware of fed posting, I avoid commenting on political topics or anarchist discourse on the Clearnet. Keep that in mind. If you scroll through my profile, you’ll see me poking fun at chaotes, posting nudes, gushing about or complaining about my husband, sharing dating horror story YouTube videos, or pet grooming videos. If you look at my likes, you’ll only see gay porn, mathematics papers, engineering papers, etc. There’s no mention of anything political, especially genocides.

There was a person I’d never interacted with who was part of a starter pack for occultists. I blocked them. Then I woke up this morning to find I was added to this list:

Chomsky Honks
Genocide apologist posting cringe from a Starbucks as it burns down around them

So, with all that in mind, these occultists I’ve never interacted with added me to a list. I am neither invested in Bluesky nor strongly connected to their network, primarily because I block almost everyone on it and don’t ever look at any feeds whatsoever, including the Home, followers, or Discover feeds. Therefore, the posts I do interact with are from pockets of people way outside my network. It’s kind of like driving to the bathhouse in Atlanta from a small town in Bubbafuck, Georgia, because everyone in your small town is garbage. Same idea, ontologically.

Honestly, I don’t care, because I’ve mostly moved back to Mastodon and blog more.

What they’ve done is implicitly a form of defamation, because they feel slighted and justified in defaming someone they don’t know, simply because a stranger they’ve never spoken to blocked them. I tend to do a basic block on anyone who blocks me, because if you’ve decided you don’t want to see me, there’s probably no good-faith reason for us to engage in the future. It’s likely there’s some malicious intent later on. As you can see with this, I was correct.

So, in order for them to know I blocked them, they had to continuously check who had blocked them, and they believe people who block them should be punished through bullying. Since the description of the list doesn’t fit me, they retaliated out of malice. The idea behind these cliques is pretty simple: they feel threatened by anyone who rejects their normative statements because it means they are being rejected, and they view any form of dissent as an existential threat. As a result, they believe people who reject them, set boundaries, or dissent from the consensus of their culture need to be punished, and the AT protocol provides convenient tools for brigading. Ironically, these people are anti-fascist yet have a very Christian-like evangelical way of viewing the world. The lack of insight is pretty funny.

I’m the child of cult leaders and members with Cluster B personalities, so I’m not clutching my pearls, especially since I’m already set up elsewhere outside of Bluesky. They do not have the means to impose significant consequences on me, so I find it amusing. I genuinely find it funny how they eat each other. I’m not calling anyone to action—I’m just enjoying the fire.

This person wasn’t aware of who I was. We never interacted, and being added to a list that defames me happened directly after I blocked them without any prior interaction. I saw their account from the firehose and wasn’t algorithmically presented with it, meaning we’re not even in the same clique. Now, if they had said something like “spams hashtags, trolls, makes alts,” that would make sense.

When you look at it for what it is, they wanted to defame, disparage, and brigade—punitive actions because they interpreted a boundary as hostile. This is projection, as they are weaponizing a mechanism to enforce boundaries. Do I care? No. I’m just pointing out how it turned its predecessor, X, into what it is now. It became a place for people to harass others, not a space for genuine, good-faith discussions, connections, or even debates. That is not my interpretation.

Well, to anyone who knows, you might ask: Did they block you because you have a particular reputation? No. I am a Web 1.0 mage, so the networks I’m known in have roots and associations in the old forums. The occulture people who have fixated on me for years go all the way back to Wizard Forums, the psionics forums, the unsolved mystery forums, etc., from the early 2000s. If you’re a circa 2016 social media influencer mage, you probably wouldn’t know me—primarily because the moment I see you, I’ll block you. There’s also a moderation block list just for me and my alts.

This behavior is typical of the culture on Bluesky, so much so that it’s a common complaint people now have—many no longer view block lists as legitimate moderation tools. People are being advised to be skeptical of lists with a large number of people.

Oh, I’m not playing the victim here. I don’t care, because I could easily get back at them. I’m infamously vindictive and petty. More importantly, it supports my point and vindicates me. I’m not signaling victimhood; rather, I’m pointing out a culture, albeit one I participate in. Tying this back to my initial point: part of what signaled the death of Twitter as a serious forum and its transformation into X was the bullying. A while ago, I did a phylogenetic memetic analysis that basically showed how the culture on Bluesky is highly derivative of image boards. But don’t you bully and troll people? Yes, yes, I do – on Bluesky, and the lack of moderation and culture enable it. That’s my point.

Bluesky is an accelerationist and reactionary platform that gives you the tools to surveil and harass people. The developers of Bluesky and the AT Protocol have explicitly said they are technological accelerationists and libertarians. I’m not virtue signaling here; rather, I am saying Bluesky is a reactionary platform, so its culture should be understood as performative, hostile, and adversarial—not cooperative or collaborative. Just like Twitter. You can’t do what I do on Bluesky on the fediverse, because the culture won’t allow it.

You saw this type of behavior on Tumblr, where the population carrying the memetics of that culture migrated to Twitter and now Bluesky. Essentially, Bluesky became a place where malice, bullying, and hostile behavior became so normalized that I’m not even upset about lists being weaponized like this. For example, I’m not posting this on Bluesky, and I, myself, have bullied people on Bluesky. But I behave myself on Mastodon. I am using myself as an example. The trolling is happening on Bluesky. The thoughtful posts are happening on Mastodon. The blog this will be posted on is federated, so this is being posted to the fediverse.

That’s what happened to Twitter. It started normalizing hostile, toxic behavior, so that people left the platform and only returned to Twitter for schadenfreude. I have my own WordPress fediverse instance. I am just on Bluesky for the schadenfreude.

2026-01-27

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2026-01-26

They're censoring the word 'Ice' on TikTok, in case you were wondering how the Free Speech is going on those Corporate social networks...

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦grrlscientist
2026-01-26
Nu Modularnumodular@c.im
2026-01-25

@BLTpizza Most have no clue as to the profitable power an overextended duopoly, like the US, controls. Fossil fuels, and now #TechBros, pay handsomely for politicians to write favorable policy, pose faux resistance, while everyone retires rich, at the expense of future generations. You'd be better off investing in emerging economies with China's Belt and Road Initiative, than to continue to fall prey to such blatant abuse - especially if you have children.

Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮ewos1986@norden.social
2026-01-25

@Lana the original Nazis didn’t wear masks - but this was before the #techbros perverted the idea of the internet.

In the end it means they have that flimsy feeling that their deeds “may” not be legitim.

Nu Modularnumodular@c.im
2026-01-25

@grrlscientist Meanwhile, the fossil fuels wealthiest 1%, and the #TechBros, thank you for keeping the focus off them, while even crony politicians profit from writing mutually beneficial policy for the fossil fuels industry.

Bypass Blues 🌻 🇪🇺 🇺🇦BypassBlues@norden.social
2026-01-25

"Europa steht vor einer existenziellen Entscheidung:

Entweder jetzt echte technologische Souveränität aufbauen oder die Herrschaft von Plattformen akzeptieren, deren Architekten Demokratie als veraltetes Betriebssystem betrachten."

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Die Darstellung ist ein strukturiertes Diagramm mit fünf beschrifteten Abschnitten auf hellem Hintergrund, wobei jeder Abschnitt kreisartige Knoten enthält, die Entitäten (Menschen oder Organisationen) darstellen. 

Die Abschnitte sind „Privatwirtschaft” (Private Economy), die Entitäten wie Joe Lonsdale, Rheinmetall und Larry Ellison auflistet; 

„Regierung und öffentliche Verwaltung” (Government and Public Administration), einschließlich Verfassungsmysterium (Vereinigtes Königreich), NHS und NATO; 

„Königsmacher” (King Makers), mit Personenknoten wie Peter Thiel, Elon Musk und JD Vance; 

„Politische Akteure” (Political Actors), mit Einträgen wie Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern, Sebastian Kurz und Labour Party (Groessebritannien); 

und „Lehre” (Teaching), die Entitäten wie MCC Fest, Axel Springer und Tony Blair Institut umfasst.

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RastalRastal
2026-01-25

@jik Trump's goal is the goal of his financial backers. That is to bring in the digital surveillance state, the Technocracy, by

is there to get Americans used to ppl being disappeared off the street or shot = to instill fear. Fear is necessary to either make Americans rally around the flag or fight as so called "domestic terrorists" - BOTH sides benefit Trump - civil war is the blueprint to get ppl begging for the , which is the real purpose behind what ICE is doing!

Replace every mention of 'Microsoft' with 'Microslop'

From the description: Screw you Satya Nadella. Learn about Barbara Streisand.

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I haven't looked into how secure or not are these:

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- For Chrome based browsers: chromewebstore.google.com/deta?

- Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisan

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Detlev Zundel [Team Human]dzu@hostsharing.coop
2026-01-24

"TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. "

Aber, aber, die Chinesen sind doch die bösen Überwacher und Propagandisten! Wenn das nicht mehr den Chinesen gehört, dann kann das endlich ohne #fakenews demokratiefördernd eingesetzt werden. Oder? ODER?

Ha ha, schon toll, wie wir uns von den Tech-Bros verarschen lassen.

wired.com/story/tiktok-new-pri

#tiktok #techbros

Björn Friedrichbjoernfr
2026-01-24

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Da derzeit in über eine Steuer für diskutiert wird, um Kürzungen für die Krankenvorsorge auszugleichen, verlassen und andere das Land. Unverschämt, aber leider nicht verwunderlich.
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