Blocking a user behaves more like mute. Proper blocking needed to prevent harassment. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by FarraigePlaisteach@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.

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[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 2 points 8 months ago

That's what I thought too, but then I had a look at Sharkey (and I guess Mastodon does the same), and it is possible to have private profile, that needs to accept requests before people are able to follow them.

https://nerdschalk.com/make-mastodon-account-private/

So I guess it's still possible even with ActivityPub?

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