Bluesky introduces anti-toxicity features -- including permission on quote posts

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features

Some of the other highlights:

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"hiding" replies, meaning they don't show up in the thread (aka conversation) view

timed word mutes

seeing where a post has been quoted, and the ability to "detach" a specific quote (so that you can't get to it from the original post)

notification filtering (somewhat similar to in Mastodon 4.3)

only showing replies from people you follow in the "following" feed (their equialent of the Home feed) if it's a reply to somebody you also follow (this matches Mastodon's behavior; previously, Bluesky showed all replies from people you follow in the home feed)

All in all, it's serious progress, and builds on their previous work with reply permissions. It'll be interesting to see how #mastodon's upcoming quote boost feature compares.

#bluesky