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

submitted 8 months ago by FarraigePlaisteach@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 6 points 8 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.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 points 8 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

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

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