I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.
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Why are people losing their minds over this? He is just making block work the same way it does on this website and other social media. Should Hexbear make it so if you block a user then it deletes any comments they made replying to your comments? Surely, it should just hide it for you, but leave it for others to see. Moderators should be responsible for banning and deleting comments, not individual users. Maybe there is just something I don't understand.
On hexbear if someone is stalking or harassing you, you can report it to moderators and get it taken care of. On twitter, people can be vile. If you're any kind of minority for example, being able to press a button to prevent some shithead from spamming bigoted crap your direction is kinda nice.
I in fact fucking hate this implementation of block, because it may as well not exist in that form. You need to keep them unblocked so you can refute the shit they spew to your comments that you otherwise can't see so it doesn't make other people believe it.
You need to not only hide their content, but remove their ability to respond to your content entirely. That's the point of BLOCK-ing someone. What you are describing is just a mute button.
It sounds to me like he's getting rid of the block feature entirely so you can't even hide users you don't want to see from your feed.
Also I can't think of a single platform where a non-moderator user blocking another user removes their comments for anyone else. At most blocking someone just prevents them from replying to you further.