The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.
The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.
Would a two way block be even practically possible on a network like this? Whatever server they are on would see your posts, so all it would take is for that server to use a slightly modified version that doesn’t hide your posts to blocked users and they’d see them anyway.
If a server is going so far as to modify their code to better enable harassment, then that is a bad server and should probably be defederated from.
You have to know that they’re doing this though. Suppose some troll is self-hosting, or part of a very small instance? You’d only know they’d do this if they told you
Yes absolutely, I just wanted to highlight that that problem has an existing deterrent in place.