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

submitted 6 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] 2 points 6 months ago

The way blocking works on Reddit is awful and is frequently abused, so I'd rather not see Lemmy go in that direction.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A person on reddit once cried to me that "blocking is only for when people are harassing you" and I just laughed and blocked them. If reddit's mods/admins would rather ban people calling out nazis than the nazis themselves, than you're well in your right to so for yourself.

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