@David "all it does on the side of something doing it is preventing them from seeing posts from people on Bluesky who bridged here"

Yes. That's the point. Obviously there are technical differences between other instances and bridged platforms but for practical purposes that's what people mean when they say "block". That's what people are wanting to do, and so @FediTips is explaining how to do it.

@osma That's how all the old social media platforms worked though. And blogs (back when blogs were cool) were also considered a part of the 'social media' umbrella. There were never any editors, that's what the 'social' part means - social media is just people getting our news / book reviews / opinion pieces / comics / cat pics from other people.

Just because the big evil companies enshittified the big evil platforms, shouldn't mean they get to monopolise the words too.