Hello and thank you for using the blocklist! The original list hosted on my personal account @franzanth.bsky.social was created during bsky's early days. It has since escaped my circle of friends and evolved into a multi-purpose blocklist, so I feel it's important to redefine my scope here. 🧵

First and foremost, the list's primary purpose is to protect scientists and sci-artists including nature photographers. They remain the most active contributors to this list and consult me on difficult cases to minimize false positives. I tend to be harsh with accounts posting in this scene. 🧵

Accounts spreading dubious info (i.e. dangerous handling of wildlife, redirecting traffic to sell unrelated products) or made up (generated images/videos) while insisting to be science-themed will be included even if they post with credits. 🧵

Thanks to bsky's popularity, the scrapers have since flourished and people started reporting accounts outside my expertise. Most of them are obvious enough (or reported with receipts) for me to feel comfortable including them. But I'm just One Guy and I can't keep up with the site's growth. 🧵

So with this move I'd like to narrow down my scope. I no longer accept: - Non-English speaking accounts. Ideally each major language should have its own moderation list. - Meme accounts. Lots of them are grifters, but some are normal users' meme stash. Telling them apart is too time consuming. 🧵

Others have also created themed blocklists, so please report to people who know their fields better. - Entertainment (movie, TV, music, video game) bsky.app/profile/did:... - Stolen nudes bsky.app/profile/did:... I'll add more relevant blocklists as replies to this thread.🧵