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What is a Block List?

A block list is a list of users, actions, words, or other things that are blocked. On any application or website that lets you "block" things, there is an internal block list that keeps track of everything you have blocked. In some cases, it's possible to export or share this block list with other users, or to subscribe to or use multiple block lists simultaneously, in which case your final block list that the computer uses to figure out what is blocked and what is not becomes the combination of all block lists that you use.

Block lists are called "moderation lists" on Bluesky.

Diagram: How Bluesky's stackable moderation works (by virtual curiosities.com). The moderation lists that you are subscribed to, such as a spam bot block list and trolls block list, are stacked "on top of" of the users that you have manually blocked one by one. The combination of these two becomes everyone who is blocked by you.
A diagram showing how Bluesky's moderation lists work. By: virtualcuriosities.com. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Written by Noel Santos.

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I'm a self-taught Brazilian programmer graduated in IT from a FATEC. In a world of increasingly complex and essential computers, I decided to use my technical expertise in hardware, desktop applications, and web technologies to create an informative resource to make PC's easier to understand.

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