I'm not saying that blocking is entirely wrong, or that lists are entirely wrong. I don't know how often the good uses match the bad ones. I'm just concerned about the bad ones. I see no solution good solution, however, other than to make communities, like in Reddit, Lemmy, etc. Which it's not great
Depends on what you want out of your time on the platform I guess. You can have your ideas challenged anywhere you go in life. And it will be. there may be times when I don't want to be inundated with aggressive people that stress me out and don't add any value. I don't have to listen to them.
And if every time I got on an app and it showed me a bunch of stuff that I hate, then I can freely chose to no longer use that app. Why would I? I don't go there to ruin my time. For example Women often get masses of men that are just straight up awful for no reason. I would block them en masse.
I don't know much about these blocklists. It sounds like people can share them between each other? I don't really care. if someone decided Bluesky is the one place in life they just want to talk to a certain type of demographic and nobody else, go for it. It doesn't impact me or you at all.
The alternative is never downloading the app at all. If you're worried about extremist echo chambers then I would worry more about 4chan, but we're out in the open here and the point is community. Community doesn't need to be constantly criticized.
TBH, community is exactly what I want, and what I can't find. I don't know how 4chan works, and I don't care much, because I don't intend to contribute there at all, so I don't intend to fix it either. I'm just losing my hope that I can be productive here, and voicing my concerns. That's it.