Comment

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

So, 20 years ago before Facebook? I know for a fact that blocking has always worked properly on Facebook, I had a very toxic ‘friendship’ there another lifetime ago where we were blocking and unblocking each other every 5 minutes. But it’s funny how everyone here keeps upvoting the incorrect information and ignoring the correct information about this. Not funny haha but funny peculiar. If Facebook only filtered out people instead of blocking them properly, it would be a disaster as far as stalking goes. And I think that everyone knows it because normally people on this platform seem quite rational. Except for when there’s any criticism of the Fediverse, that is.

source

Sort:hotnew top

Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I agree with you that all mainstream platforms (FB, Twitter, Reddit - this just the ones I have experience with) work like that.

Believe it or not, but there still exist modern forums with large users bases (stable or growing), so it’s not like it’s an archaic model.

It’s fair to criticise Lemmy for using this approach. I genuinely see where you are coming from. But if we approach Lemmy as an evolution of old style forums, then the “hide” approach makes more sense.

With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.

source
- Character_Locked@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.
  
  See that’s my problem here. I just came from a heavily moderated instance because I thought that I could moderate my own experience instead. But it turns out that I have to rely on admins and moderators anyway.
  
  Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don’t really care about quality (all about engagement).
  
  Yeah I don’t buy this. To me, it makes perfect logical sense that if I block someone, they’re actually blocked and not just hidden from my view. Maybe this wasn’t a problem for forum sites used by a couple of hundred people at most but it’s not 1999 anymore and there’s a lot of psychos out there. It’s nice to know that you can actually protect yourself to some extent on an online platform these days.
  
  source
  - Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    As I said, I see where you are coming from and you do have a point.
    
    I am just trying to explain the reasoning behind the opposing arguement. It’s not just being old school for the sake of being old school.
    
    The forums of old weren’t not just a few hundred users. Some of the bigger ones had DAUs in the tens of thousands.
    
    source