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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon still implements privacy and blocking to an extend: https://nerdschalk.com/make-mastodon-account-private/

So it's still possible even within the Fediverse to have more granularity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mastodon's blocking can fuck right off. Very fascist neoliberals there routinely use it to censor anyone with an opposing viewpoint and because being blocked literally locks you out of content people are literally afraid to post anything lest they offend the creator's very fragile egos.

As a result the entire platform is basically you just shouting into the void where people who like you have a huge incentive not to engage. You want to know how how many conversations have had even a response? 2. Two. My entire time there, two times. People either agree with what you say and like it or they don't and block you on sight. Nobody wants to risk being left out so they just keep to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay… Would you please remove C----f------?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah that's understandable. I'll avoid that language in the future. I changed it to very fascist, means the same thing anyway.