The Block Bot

It was inevitable that the billionaire man child would eventually turn off our API access. It's been fun and this app has helped stop a lot of abuse. @TheBlockBot was the first shared block list app on Twitter created by me @oolon in 2013, just over 10 years ago!

RT @oolon: This is what Elon's change to blocking will enable, people can quote your posts more easily as they're not blocked. Then you can…

So much better than Twitter, who killed @TheBlockBot and all shared blocking services ages ago. It's built into the app that you can share and subscribe to blocklists! Not that I've had to block anyone on there yet, or even mute... x.com/bluesky/status…

@MyBleedingInk @oolon No, sorry, Melon killing the API makes it impossible :(

@TheBlockBot @oolon Ok so is there a way to unsub from this list and unblock all those people now? It blocked a lot of decent people who subbed to blue for reasons other than clout or fanboying. 🫤

It was inevitable that the billionaire man child would eventually turn off our API access. It's been fun and this app has helped stop a lot of abuse. @TheBlockBot was the first shared block list app on Twitter created by me @oolon in 2013, just over 10 years ago!

@Jris420 @Anka213 I live in the EU so I'm definitely not starting a service asking for people's passwords. GDPR nightmare :D

@Jris420 @Anka213 That's what all the spammers use, so that would be possible but maybe a bit heavy going. Also to apply blocks to someone else's account you'd need their username/password and no MFA on the account.

Elon has suspended my account calling for #BlockTheBlue after Matt reported on it. He's scared! @BlockTheBlue gone, but strike us down and we'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine ;) #BlueHarvest #StreisandEffect twitter.com/MattBinder/sta…

@Anka213 Yes if you have a way of using them that bypasses the API let me know

@TheBlockBot Would it be possible to still show the old lists so you can use them in other ways without using the API?

@ThatVDOVault @BlockTheBlue @bonkologist Yes he has both, legacy list and blue list >> @travisbrown

RT @TransphobeB: So it looks like @TransphobeB is no more, barring a miracle. I'll keep adding to the list if I can in the hope API acce…

Elon Musk has shown he has absolutely no interest in stopping abuse on this platform. In fact he actively encourages neo-Nazis to set up shop, allows them to get "verified" by paying him $8/month to get special access to abuse minorities. Which is why I say #BlockTheBlue always!

It eventually died when @blocktogether took over as a much more flexible tool, then was restarted as a @blocktogether node when that project stopped. So not quite 10 continuous years of operation. The first page of theblockbot.com way back then - web.archive.org/web/2013030118…

@Keirakvlt Yeah people who tried to sub when it was broken will need to do that. But that's a few hundred just before it went down. Generally that won't help :D

Back up for now, not been cut off by Melon yet! twitter.com/TheBlockBot/st…

@Keirakvlt Done 900 for you so far today, so obviously back working again. It's been out of action for over a week I'm afraid - hence the slow uptake.

@Keirakvlt Unsub and resub will add a lot of Actions, so don't do it unless sure it isn't working as it just leads to more rows for it to churn through when trying to do your blocks. I'll check yours now.

@johnwelch62 @BlockTheBlue Back up for now!

@Ceejsteak It's back up and working for now!

Blockbot down for maintenance! Actions table autoincrement id was an int, the table that holds all blocks etc, and the number of rows is over 4bn now... Hit the max allowed value! So re-creating the table w/bigint, will be down for 24hrs I'd guess. It's a 250Gb compressed table!