The Block Party Blog

Your essential guide to get the most out of Block Party.

You may be unknowingly sharing your activity status with more people than you think.

Archive all your Instagram posts in just one click with Block Party’s latest clean up tool.

Four techniques to see more of what you want (and less of what you don’t).

Clean up your Facebook friends with Block Party’s bulk unfriending feature.

How your Facebook cover photo is exposing you to online risks and what you can do about it.

Block Party’s quick automation saves you the headache of manually disabling LinkedIn notifications.

Learn how Block Party can help you reduce harassment, clean up your feed, and create a safer online environment.

Meta has updated its privacy policy to use your personal information — your posts, photos and videos — to train its AI.

Online scams targeting older adults is on the rise. Follow our steps to ensure your parents don’t fall victim to common digital scams.

Stay safe using Uber with these essential tips. From sharing your trip details to reporting unsafe behavior, this guide covers everything you need to know to protect yourself.

Social media isn’t all bad, but it can be distracting and anxiety-inducing. Follow these tips to reduce your screen time and be more intentional.

With billions of active users, Facebook remains one of the world’s most popular social networks… and it’s also a scammer’s paradise. Follow our tips to protect your account, your identity and your peace of mind.

Customize your Block Party experience. Rate your concerns for the most relevant and useful recommendations on your For You feed.

When you use Reddit, don't let Reddit use you. Stay savvy about your privacy while participating in your favorite online communities.

Strava's default settings expose more than just your fitness stats. Learn how to safeguard your routes and routines with some simple privacy tweaks.

Protect your peace by actively pruning your timeline.

Do you have a loved one at risk of harassment? Play your part in keeping them safe by cleaning up your shared digital footprint.

Even if you have a private account, Instagram tags can be used to hurt you unless you fix your settings.

Automatic friending is a scourge, and you should turn it off immediately.

There’s no good reason anyone needs to see your Venmo payments.

Your Venmo friends list is public by default. Here's how to fix that—and why you should even care. (Spoiler: it's pretty useful to bad actors online.)

Attackers can use the photo tagging feature on Facebook to identify important people in your life, build a mental model of your behaviors, or target you for further harassment—but it only takes a few minutes to take back control.

Practical steps to take in a crisis.

We’re so sorry we couldn’t stay.

Authorized agents offer a safe path to greater consumer control over social media, if we let them.

Who should do the labor — and hold responsibility — for content moderation in the age of Twitter 2.0

Reduce your exposure to Twitter harassment quickly by following the steps in this tutorial.

Need to ask someone for help managing harassment on Twitter, or give your boss a heads up that it's happening? We drafted the messages so you don't have to.

Keep all the receipts with block reasons

Reflections on Block Party’s seed round and what we need to cultivate a middleware ecosystem

Auto-muting “johnnybunchanumbers” accounts

Introducing a new way to filter out the noise in your mentions

It's time to put the power in the hands of the users

As we enter the final stretch of 2021, we’re filled with gratitude for our community. We couldn’t ask for a more thoughtful and engaged group of people. It’s a privilege to support you.‍

Here at Block Party, each new user signup is met with gratitude…and sadness.

Today we hit a milestone that has been three years in the making: we’re finally out of open beta!

Today Block Party introduces our take on bulk blocking: block lists.

Ask about tactics for introducing a new product to the market, and inevitably someone will recommend a waitlist.

Block Party works in every language

Introducing the "anti-troll toll"

Block Party founder and CEO Tracy Chou recently did a couple of “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) online events that surfaced excellent questions about Block Party, how our product works, our vision for the future, and other nuanced discussion topics.

Some number of years ago, a man who’d first found me from my posts on Quora started messaging me.

The irony is not lost on me that I incited a tidal wave of harassment from Reddit’s cesspit of toxicity because I went in there to talk about working on anti-harassment software.

On #WorthTheMention, we’re highlighting those using their voice online for good. Today, we’re chatting with Liz Lee, founder of the online safety platform OnlineSOS.

On #WorthTheMention, we’re highlighting those using their voice online for good. Today, we’re chatting with the incredible Olympic runner, award-winning filmmaker, and writer, Alexi Pappas!

Helper guidelines, notifications, improved refresh times

This is a guest post by Abadesi Osunsade, founder of Hustle Crew, a careers community on a mission to make tech more inclusive, and co-host of Techish podcast.

As the weeks under lockdown have blurred into months, a new normal that even vaguely resembles the old normal only seems further away.

A couple weeks ago I posted a mildly sarcastic tweet about Barry’s Bootcamp and I ended up solidly in the Twitter crosshairs of one of Silicon Valley’s most notoriously noxious individuals.

AKA some "personal" news: I'm here to tell you about my startup Block Party!