Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers.
capital@lemmy.world 2 days agoI meant in terms of hiding a particular user.
To me, blocking means “I don’t see $”. Not “$ doesn’t see me”. Ad blocking, script blocking, site blocking via DNS, etc is my mental model.
moon@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Looks like that’s basically what’s happening now that I looked into it more. Like I believe the “hide” user button is the same (idk I haven’t been on the site forever lol), and the block basically blocks interaction but doesn’t hide it. Honestly makes sense because you could see the user who blocked you if you simply clicked a thread link in private browsing.
Like if you replied and blocked me on Lemmy, I could still open the thread in incognito or whatever and see the whole public thread but not reply to you. Seems actually reasonable tbh, since the blocker and block-ee doesn’t lose or gain anything they couldn’t already do already.
capital@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s how Reddit used to work until they made the idiotic change (IMO) to go the other way. A blocked user loses the ability to even participate in the thread.
For example, after the change if I blocked you now, you wouldn’t be able to respond to me or anyone else further down a thread I started.
This is a boon to bullshitters, disinformation campaigns, etc since those people could just post their bullshit and then block anyone who attempted to call them out.