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Blocking a user behaves more like mute. Proper blocking needed to prevent harassment. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by FarraigePlaisteach@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Yes absolutely, I just wanted to highlight that that problem has an existing deterrent in place.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

A good two way blocking system should mainly focus on preventing interaction from the blocked user (The specs of Activitypub mention interraction, as opposed to viewing), even if they don't hide it, the interactions from the blocked user wouldn't be federated as if they were a banned user.