Bluesky’s new AI feature, Attie, has been blocked by over 125,000 users since its weekend launch, placing it among the platform’s most-blocked accounts. The tool, which builds custom feeds using AI, faced immediate user criticism regarding automation, platform priorities, and a perceived shift away from Bluesky’s original appeal.
A new AI tool launched on Bluesky has quickly become one of the most-blocked accounts on the platform. Attie, an experimental feed-building app, has been blocked 125,000 times since it was publicly announced on Saturday, according to data from analytics website ClearSky.
That total places the account second only to U.S. Vice President JD Vance among the platform’s most-blocked profiles. Attie has been blocked by users more than the accounts for the White House and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), both of which have been blocked by more than 100,000 users.
Attie was created by The Atmosphere, a development team led by former CEO Jay Graber, and built using Bluesky’s AT Protocol. The tool lets users type in a description of posts or topics they want, and using AI, it automatically searches for relevant posts across Bluesky to assemble a custom feed.
The launch drew nearly immediate pushback from some users. Author Dani Finn wrote, “It would be kinda neat if Attie became the most-blocked account.” Writer and artist Dan Lansdowne noted, “Attie is almost as unpopular as ICE and JD Vance—and it’s only been about 27 hours.”
Other users framed the feature as a shift away from what originally attracted them to the platform. Illustrator Marco Alfaro commented, “You guys do realize that most of your user base came here because they wanted to get away from Twitter’s AI right?” Tech YouTuber Sam Thibault wrote, “This always happens when companies start to get bigger, they start to shift more into what they think the market wants rather than fixing issues that still exist on the main platform.”
The surge in blocks reflects Bluesky’s culture, where users often rely on blocking and shared blocklists to filter accounts. When U.S. Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky last summer, his account quickly became the most-blocked on the site, still holding that record at 180,684 blocks according to ClearSky.
