• @[email protected]
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    683 months ago

    Not defending xitter, but that’s exactly how it works on lemmy, isn’t it? If I block someone I don’t see them anymore but they can still see and reply to me.

    • @gedaliyah
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      When I’ve brought this up with the devs, they have shot it down immediately. Basically, their attitude is that posts are public by default. So hiding them from a blocked user doesn’t really do anything.

      Of course, that’s nonsense. Mastodon does it. It has an incredible chilling effect on harassment.

      • @[email protected]
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        203 months ago

        Oh, I was just making an observation, I’m definitely with you on this, a proper block would be much better,.

      • @[email protected]
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        83 months ago

        How can you feel harassed if you don’t see what a user is replying to you? Unless you pay a lot of attention to usernames…

        • @gedaliyah
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          203 months ago

          Imagine finding out one day that someone you’ve blocked for harassment has been following you around and making nasty comments on every single post you made for months, or even leaking personal information. You just didn’t know it.

          It happens, and even on Lemmy you will have people who will do this (doxing will get a ban but other behaviors may slide under the radar, especiallyif the target doesn’t see and report it).

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            But instead if blocking means they cant see your posts, can’t you talk behind their backs without them ever even knowing about you?

          • @[email protected]
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            I mean… Oh no, someone is being mean “behind my back”?

            As for the personal info stuff… Why would they know personal stuff about you in the first place? Don’t let people you know know your username on these kinds of websites and don’t share personal info you don’t want people to know about without a throwaway account?

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        53 months ago

        It really not. What if just do not want to see their post, for example because low quality or topic i not like? Block is a post/comment filter for feed, nothing more.

        Maybe named wrong if you expect it to be more than it is. But functionality very useful.

        Maybe should be able to block post/comment seperate, sound like good idea.

        • @gedaliyah
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          73 months ago

          I would argue that there should be a block feature and also a mute feature. What we currently call “block” is actually just a mute.

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            13 months ago

            Mute really is better name.

            But block would mean activate a feed filter for someone else. Could abuse remote filter activate some way, probably.

            It probably also filter on instance side, so if instance of blocked person ignore request to activate block filter, block is useless. And block actually not do anything might confuse people or accuse dev of malice.

    • @foggy
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      93 months ago

      Yep. Dumb AF here, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        123 months ago

        Doesn’t really make sense to block them from viewing your content though, if it’s all public.

      • @kofe
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        23 months ago

        Discord is the worst I’ve seen. I finally found a separate plug in to make posts disappear, which is how it should be. I guess I get keeping posts fully public, but it would be nice if discord prevented the replies or tags to maybe discourage the blocked user from interacting, too. They at least prevent the emoji reactions.