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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] 6 points 7 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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