“That’s how I found my wife!” said divorced man with a restraining order.
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.
When I’ve brought this up with depth, 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.
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…
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).
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?
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.
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.
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.
Mastodon manages to do it on ActivityPub
Oh, I was just making an observation, I’m definitely with you on this, a proper block would be much better,.
Yep. Dumb AF here, too.
Doesn’t really make sense to block them from viewing your content though, if it’s all public.
When you “block” someone on Reddit, they can see and reply to your posts and comments, they can search your comment history, which could lead to identification and doxxing. It’s fucking bullshit. When you block someone they should cease to exist, cease to be able to see, or vote, comment or reply to your content, at all. Mastodon does this perfectly. Lemmy and Mbin do not. It’s abusive and it’s fucked.
Isn’t the problem that posts are public even to users that are not logged in? They probably feel like there’s no point in just forcing stalkers to log off to view them.
this is how blocking should work. if you are publishing something to the public, there is no reason to expect others can’t see it comment on it
If you’re still using that service you’re part of the problem.
Just delete your account already and move on. Nothing of value is produced there anymore.
Just like Lemmy.
There are pros to this:
If the person you blocked can’t see your posts, they can intuit that you’ve blocked them. Then, they might try and find you on other social media to harass you even further, or shift targets to someone else.
If they can see your posts, they have no idea they’ve been blocked, similar to Reddit’s shadow bans. This might make them think you’re just annoyed or rarely look at your DMs, making them invest even more time to uselessly try to contact you.
Of course, I can see the other side too, that you don’t want them to know about any (new) posts you’ve made; but it isn’t as one-sided as you seem to think it is.
I disagree. When they don’t see your posts, you might as well have gone silent or just post less frequently so they happen to not see them. Besides: once you follow a certain number of people, you don’t track each and everyone of them.
Seeing a post makes you more likely to want to answer them. If that doesn’t work (as I understand it), you will notice it and maybe be frustrated about it.
