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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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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