Ah if only I could be tough and brave and cool like you.

According to another user in here, blocking on Mastodon actually works. So seems like it is possible to do in the Fediverse.

The only way I could see that working is if the list of users you blocked were federated too, and effectively made public

I actually thought blocks were public already. And personally I don’t see how it would be an issue if people that I haven’t blocked can see who I’ve blocked.

As far as I’m aware, on Reddit blocking a user doesn’t hide your comments from them

According to Reddit themselves on their support page: “Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your posts or comments”

Then what happens if you post in a community where someone you’ve blocked is a moderator?

Let moderators see comments from users that have blocked them in communities that they moderate but nowhere else. Or do whatever Reddit does in this case.

Lol I’m not interested in begging for a nicer reception from people that upvote blatant misinformation as long as it suits them. I wasn’t that ticked off when I started but this thread has taught me that this place can be a fkn clown show.

Seriously, the fact that the “it’s always been this way even on Facebook and Reddit” guy is the top comment here means that people’s opinions here are worth less than shit. And I might as well be trying to convince MAGA manosphere people to be decent human beings. Because I’m dealing with the same kind of delusion here.

With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.

See that’s my problem here. I just came from a heavily moderated instance because I thought that I could moderate my own experience instead. But it turns out that I have to rely on admins and moderators anyway.

Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don’t really care about quality (all about engagement).

Yeah I don’t buy this. To me, it makes perfect logical sense that if I block someone, they’re actually blocked and not just hidden from my view. Maybe this wasn’t a problem for forum sites used by a couple of hundred people at most but it’s not 1999 anymore and there’s a lot of psychos out there. It’s nice to know that you can actually protect yourself to some extent on an online platform these days.

If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked

I too enjoy when the proper meanings of words get used and things work as advertised. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that this is such a controversial topic here. Imagine wanting moderation tools that actually work, the nerve!

So, 20 years ago before Facebook? I know for a fact that blocking has always worked properly on Facebook, I had a very toxic ‘friendship’ there another lifetime ago where we were blocking and unblocking each other every 5 minutes. But it’s funny how everyone here keeps upvoting the incorrect information and ignoring the correct information about this. Not funny haha but funny peculiar. If Facebook only filtered out people instead of blocking them properly, it would be a disaster as far as stalking goes. And I think that everyone knows it because normally people on this platform seem quite rational. Except for when there’s any criticism of the Fediverse, that is.

When you block someone, the first thing that Facebook does is restrict the blocked user’s access to your profile. The user can’t view your profile even if they have a direct link to your account page. They’ll get an error message if they try to do that.

Information from https://www.howtogeek.com/896008/what-happens-when-you-block-someone-on-facebook/

You can keep making these bullshit statements about how it works on other sites but thankfully I have this thing called ‘internet’ to look up the facts myself.

If you’d like to cut off contact from someone for any reason, you can block them by going to their profile or visiting your user settings.

Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your post or comments in communities, unless you are a moderator in specific situations.

From https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413520308372-How-does-blocking-work. But I see that you downvoted that user for their correct information anyway without bothering to confirm for yourself. I find it pretty sad how people around here seem to be falling over themselves to defend the Fediverse at all costs without even discussing something or wanting it to be better.

I have literally always known blocking to be blocking, not filtering. Blocking blocks people on your phone, on chat apps, on Facebook and on Reddit. Not sure why this is a special case that needs to be forgiven or ignored.

Good one 🤣🤣😂🤣

Can you give examples of platforms where it works like this? I know that blocking someone on Facebook blocks them from being able to see you. Pretty Twitter is or was the same before Musk. And I just looked it up, blocking a user on Reddit does in fact block them from seeing you. I’m pretty sure it’s always worked this way on smaller platforms I’ve used too.

So I’m curious to know, which platforms have you always used that have apparently always worked this way?

Ah there it is. The “it’S oNlY imAGiNAry iNteRneT pOInts” smart ass comment. I knew it was coming, glad it’s out the way.

Oh great. Glad to know that Lemmy looks out for its users. /s

1. Had a feeling that something like that would be the answer. One area that Bluesky has the Fediverse beat is blocklists of users that are there for bad intentions. At least they’re not interested in protecting abusive users there.
2. Will do. I have my doubts about how effective it will be but I’ll try.
3. Thanks for the info, I was wondering why the occasional post doesn’t work. Still useful for catching assholes that want to ruin the experience for everyone else though.
4. So what does blocking actually do if the person is still able to interact with your posts? Is it just a placebo then?

Also !bunnies@lemmy.world or !dailybunnies@lemmings.world

See also: Earphones. I may on occasion ignore people trying to talk to me even if I can hear them lol.

Don’t forget Germany. Seems like the only lesson their politicians learnt from WW2 was “don’t ever criticise Israel.”

These Republicans are literally evil and it baffles me and fills me with despair that people just don’t see it. They want to fuck and marry children, and send them to work in the mines, on school nights. They dismantle environmental protections and human rights with glee. They want to privatise everything and make everyone beholden to billionaires that make more in an hour than others will in a lifetime. They force brain dead mothers to incubate babies and healthy mothers to incubate brain dead babies.

They are undeniably evil fucking scum. But they’ve got everyone convinced that the drag queen reading children’s books in a public library is the thing destroying society. And to me, the worst part of all is that none of these things are a secret. They don’t campaign for child marriage in secret, they don’t force women to go through absolute horror behind closed doors. This is all openly done and known. So what does that say about the many many people that act like they’re their saviours?

it would likely result in a large number of the currently active users here getting themselves banned from it

Absolutely. People here can’t even help themselves when it comes to going into a community literally called “Reddit” to shit on people for talking about Reddit. Or going into a community called “WitchesvsPatriarchy” to not all men any conversation about the patriarchy.

You can bet your ass that any community like one that you’re talking about would be flooded by smartass replies and jokes at first. And the moment moderators start banning people, they’ll be crying about their ‘free speech’.

That’s totally fair. Not everything has to be an excuse to get drunk or stoned or whatever. Just being in good company, eating good snacks and hanging out can be enough.

We’ll get some more control over images when 1.0 comes

Ah, so a Lemmy limitation once again. Kinda like how a trans community can’t decide to disable downvotes without it being all or nothing. It would definitely make this a whole lot better if users could at least finish creating their profiles, even if they’re unable to upload images elsewhere. There’s always imgur but that doesn’t work for profile pics. But somehow I’m not surprised that it’s a platform limitation.

please understand

I definitely do and if I was rich, I would definitely be donating to causes like this regularly. I very much appreciate what you’re providing for us here. But as an end user that’s just looking for the perfect place to park and call my online home, I have to also consider my experience here and can’t run on just idealism and good will. It’s a pity about the images thing because this instance seems otherwise almost perfect for me. But I completely understand. And thank you for providing this space for people like me on the first place.