Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, man, it was working in both directions for a while. I wanna say at least as far back as 2019 for sure, because I got blocked by accident by someone I know irl, and couldn’t see their stuff when logged in, nor could they see mine

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• Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have not been on Reddit for 2 years or more. That’s how it’s always worked for years before that even. As someone who had an account there from the 2000s all through the 2010s.

  So you are either misremembering or simply mistaken. I don’t like that model myself. Because it can be abused as much as it can stop abuse. Easily allowing someone to block anyone who has or might dissent to them. Helping them spread misinformation, giving it a false sense of acceptance or at least no vocal pushback. Since they couldn’t just block people that down voted but never commented.

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• Character_Locked@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’d like to cut off contact from someone for any reason, you can block them by going to their profile or visiting your user settings.

  Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your post or comments in communities, unless you are a moderator in specific situations.

  From …reddithelp.com/…/4413520308372-How-does-blocking…. But I see that you downvoted that user for their correct information anyway without bothering to confirm for yourself. I find it pretty sad how people around here seem to be falling over themselves to defend the Fediverse at all costs without even discussing something or wanting it to be better.

  I have literally always known blocking to be blocking, not filtering. Blocking blocks people on your phone, on chat apps, on Facebook and on Reddit. Not sure why this is a special case that needs to be forgiven or ignored.

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