I noticed recently that someone I blocked in the past was able to downvote my post. I thought if you block someone, they shouldn’t be able to see my posts at all? We are on two different instances if it helps.
No., you are blocking them, you can’t force them to block you.
homes@piefed.world 2 days ago
no, blocks don’t work here like they do on reddit. a block only mean they you won’t see them anymore. they can still see you and vote/comment on your posts/comments.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s crap. Thank you.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No, doing anything else would be crap. You are free to ignore whomever you want, but demanding right to control what others see is insane.
Steve@communick.news 2 days ago
Is it?
Everything is inherently public. Every post and comment is available to anyone with an account and everyone without one. All one would have to do is log out to see all your stuff again. You can’t really block people from seeing you, when everything is always public.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
It’s more like “mute” than block.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I agree with you and did some. looking around. Mastodon at least has hard blocks. If nowhere else does, I’ll be switching
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Are you sure about this? I went to go read and found blogs saying that blocking stops interacting while only muting stops yourself from seeing their posts
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homes@piefed.world 2 days ago
That’s a different platform. I’m referring to Lemmy. I believe piefed and mbin do the same thing.