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was tired of having to find account information (pds, previous handles, aliases) and moderation history (account labels, blocks, post labels, lists, etc) through sketchy websites or via manual perusing, so I built skytrace.aly.town it is extremely fast and (imo) pleasing to use.

Hey out of curiosity – SkyTrace shows wayy less blocks for my profile than ClearSky. Do you know why that would be / is it a known issue?

clearsky seems to just be straight up wrong here My first thought was missing records in constellation’s backfill but I went to the repos of people it claims are blocking you, searched their repo for your account DID, and you’re not there lol

there are a few missing from constellation tho but it seems to be a mix, not all of those accounts seem to be blocking you? seems like they’re missing events as well. several of the accounts have also been deleted or deactivated.

so basically in order to get a full list you have to watch the network from the beginning of time by crawling every single account that exists while also watching for live updates—someone blocking someone, unblocking someone, etc. same concept for lists.