Attie Diamond Hands Its Way to Most-Blocked Status (Not the Good Kind)

Bluesky's shiny new AI toy Attie just got absolutely demolished by the timeline mob. The experimental feed-building app has been rug-pulled on by 125,000 users since its Saturday debut, landing it in the prestigious second-place spot right behind JD Vance (180,684 blocks). That's right—people have blocked this thing more than the White House and ICE combined. If this were a price chart, we'd be looking at a 99% drawdown in user sentiment.

Built by The Atmosphere, a dev crew captained by former Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, Attie lets users describe what kind of content they want scrolling through their feed and uses AI to curate a personalized timeline. Revolutionary concept, right? The community said "nah" almost instantly.

"You guys do realize most of your user base came here because they wanted to get away from Twitter's algorithmic BS, right?" illustrator Marco Alfaro dragged. "So basically, you guys are taking the only real moat Bluesky had over X—the whole 'we're not that place' energy—and yeeting it into the sun. This definitely won't backfire spectacularly."

Other users went full scorched earth. "Attie is almost as unpopular as ICE and JD Vance—and it's only been out like 27 hours," writer and artist Dan Lansdowne posted late Sunday. The ratio was immediate and brutal.

The mass blocking spree is peak Bluesky culture, where users treat blocklists like sacred scripture and moderation like a contact sport. When VP JD Vance joined last summer, his account instantly became the most-blocked account on the platform—and he's still holding that crown like a diamond-handed degen refusing to take profits.

Bluesky's chief innovation officer Graber hit up Decrypt with: "We understand that some of our users have genuine concerns about how LLMs work and the impact they are having on our society. We take those concerns seriously."

Well, the market has definitely spoken. And by market, we mean a bunch of very online people with strong