I would prefer if people I block couldn’t see anything I post
Even better if they can comment, but it doesn’t show up for you or anyone else.
Currently, X displays a “You’re blocked” message when trying to view the profile of a person who’s blocked you. In addition to blocking all posts, it also prevents you from seeing their replies, media, followers, and following list.
If so, then sounds okay, as long as the person knows they have been blocked, would suck to write a well written comment in reply to someone who blocked you, and unknowingly your comment is hidden for everyone because you don’t realize you were blocked.
though they are still able to see, vote, comment, and mine your content for descriptive data which can, has, and will lead to doxxing
Context: Lemmy still allow people to comment on your posts or comments after you blocked them:lemmy.world/comment/13548025bsky.social/about/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
I don't think the point is to signal to others
Context: Lemmy still allow people to comment on your posts or comments after you blocked them:
But your response is more heated this time
The initial question was what's the value of the suggested tool. I answered that because I thought it might be useful for the community
In cases of harassment (what I view as the strongest counter argument) I think mods/admin need to take action by banning. Like if someone puts a comment on every post I make saying “JackbyDev is a doodoo head” (or something actually offensive lol) then that’s harassment. I’m having trouble thinking of any problematic behaviors that wouldn’t qualify as harassment that allowing someone to comment in reply to would actually prevent.
The block mechanism as you suggest is extremely ripe for abuse at large scale, and relying on mods / admins to combat it will place an unnecessary extra load upon them, if it is even possible.
We should try to keep in mind that the fediverse and lemmy will likely grow to larger scales.
Bots and brigading are not the issue here. Neither of them were a factor in the post I linked,
I first prepared the account by blocking all the moderators and 4 or 5 users who usually call out misinformation posts.
The very nature of the abuse system being described means that anybody who would report it on YPTB or similar comms can only do so once before themselves being blocked and unable to view future posts of that sort.
BlueSky just passed 21 millions users.
there would be more than 4 or 5 people who would call out about misinformation.
Can’t we use here the same argument other people use about Lemmy being a public forum, and thus the posts being public for everyone except the blocked accounts?
BlueSky isn’t really comparable, since they have a user-user interaction model as compared to Reddit / Lemmy which have a community-based interaction model. In a sense every BS user is an admin for their own community.
We could, but again, good faith users tend not to be browsing while logged out. They have little reason to do so, while bad faith users have every reason to.