- X is telling users that blocking will soon be useless and trolls and stalkers will soon be able to see their posts again.
- Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.
- This removal of blocking may violate Apple and Google’s policies regarding platforms that host user generated content.
Mastodon also doesn't let you prevent people from reading your posts.
The block feature works on Mastodon as it does most places. Lemmy seems to be the only weird place where blocking isn't a fully-featured option.
I can no longer see posts made on a Mastodon instance ran by an ableist piece of shit after I called her an ableist piece of shit, so even Mastodon has this feature.
Correct workflow
This is the first time I'm exploring this, but I think you're wrong.
On Mastodon you can:
So post visibility is not something you set per profile, but per post. But you have an effective tool to decide who you let in AND remove on the way.