Other people in that thread have pointed out that it isn't showing posts being delivered to Threads despite the block. That should be testable with other instances, but not Threads since it's not receiving any content from Mastodon at the moment. The concerning thing there is the user still being able to view content from people they've blocked, but that seems to be a bug if it's reproducible.

I don't think Lemmy does either...? It pushes updates to subs that at least someone on the receiving instance subscribes to (at least that's how it worked last time I checked). That's why there are scripts going around for new instances to automatically follow a bunch of popular subs to populate the All feed.

I think Mastodon works in the same way with users, where it sends updates for accounts that someone on the receiving end follows. So if nobody follows you from Threads it wouldn't send any of your posts there.

Oh yeah, you're right on that. If I'm looking for privacy from the subscription manager signing up with a service like this is a terrible choice, because it is fully a financial institution.

I thought I heard they were rolling out some material you theming in beta a while ago. Did they revert it?

I'm not American, it seems to be available in the US only...

Me when I start seeing sickoposting in my default Lemmy comms

Interesting demo! Does this use the user agent string for identifying clients?

Yup, exactly. We can't gatekeep this too much, even if it's warranted, otherwise people will just give up and never actually spend time to learn about this.

You're right, I guess, but if we only recommend paid ones people will just google for free ones and use whichever shady provider is at the top of the google results. People are really averse to subscriptions.

I've added a warning about free VPNs and switched to recommending Windscribe, which still has a decent reputation.

No worries, integration between Mastodon and Lemmy is still confusing at this stage :)

What?

I mean you're right, but it's already probably too technical for the kind of target I'm aiming at with this post. I wrote this for a friend who didn't know what a torrent is but wanted to get cracked FL Studio. I cannot expect them to dive into firewall rules.