Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’m touched that you think mid-50s is young, but bi-directional blocking is, and should be, the universal norm. Social media blocks are inherently about preventing harassment. If they don’t go both ways then they aren’t blocking anything. Hiding/ignoring content and blocking a user are two completely different concepts.
Lemmy is all public. There’s no private timelines, so any 2way block would be superficial anyway right? A blocked user can just log out, or use a different account on a different instance. It’d give people a false sense of security if anyone said bidirectional blocking was a thing.
Something like Twitter could have bidirectional blocking because you can also make all of your posts private.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
at best blocking should prevent interaction, “hiding” information that is publicly available is pointless.