When I’ve brought this up with depth, they have shot it down immediately. Basically, their attitude is that posts are public by default. So hiding them from a blocked user doesn’t really do anything.
Of course, that’s nonsense. Mastodon does it. It has an incredible chilling effect on harassment.
Imagine finding out one day that someone you’ve blocked for harassment has been following you around and making nasty comments on every single post you made for months, or even leaking personal information. You just didn’t know it.
It happens, and even on Lemmy you will have people who will do this (doxing will get a ban but other behaviors may slide under the radar, especiallyif the target doesn’t see and report it).
I mean… Oh no, someone is being mean “behind my back”?
As for the personal info stuff… Why would they know personal stuff about you in the first place? Don’t let people you know know your username on these kinds of websites and don’t share personal info you don’t want people to know about without a throwaway account?
It really not. What if just do not want to see their post, for example because low quality or topic i not like? Block is a post/comment filter for feed, nothing more.
Maybe named wrong if you expect it to be more than it is. But functionality very useful.
Maybe should be able to block post/comment seperate, sound like good idea.
But block would mean activate a feed filter for someone else. Could abuse remote filter activate some way, probably.
It probably also filter on instance side, so if instance of blocked person ignore request to activate block filter, block is useless. And block actually not do anything might confuse people or accuse dev of malice.
When I’ve brought this up with depth, they have shot it down immediately. Basically, their attitude is that posts are public by default. So hiding them from a blocked user doesn’t really do anything.
Of course, that’s nonsense. Mastodon does it. It has an incredible chilling effect on harassment.
Oh, I was just making an observation, I’m definitely with you on this, a proper block would be much better,.
How can you feel harassed if you don’t see what a user is replying to you? Unless you pay a lot of attention to usernames…
Imagine finding out one day that someone you’ve blocked for harassment has been following you around and making nasty comments on every single post you made for months, or even leaking personal information. You just didn’t know it.
It happens, and even on Lemmy you will have people who will do this (doxing will get a ban but other behaviors may slide under the radar, especiallyif the target doesn’t see and report it).
I mean… Oh no, someone is being mean “behind my back”?
As for the personal info stuff… Why would they know personal stuff about you in the first place? Don’t let people you know know your username on these kinds of websites and don’t share personal info you don’t want people to know about without a throwaway account?
It really not. What if just do not want to see their post, for example because low quality or topic i not like? Block is a post/comment filter for feed, nothing more.
Maybe named wrong if you expect it to be more than it is. But functionality very useful.
Maybe should be able to block post/comment seperate, sound like good idea.
I would argue that there should be a block feature and also a mute feature. What we currently call “block” is actually just a mute.
Mute really is better name.
But block would mean activate a feed filter for someone else. Could abuse remote filter activate some way, probably.
It probably also filter on instance side, so if instance of blocked person ignore request to activate block filter, block is useless. And block actually not do anything might confuse people or accuse dev of malice.
Mastodon manages to do it on ActivityPub