Nice! I’ll definitely check it out. Makes me a little sad because I just discovered the app Summit and it has seriously blown me away with how above and beyond just serving comments and posts that the dev of this app has gone. It’s like Lemmy+ with tagging, trending communities and the ability to make multicommunities!

But I’ll be checking out Interstellar for sure and if I like, I’ll probably be moving to Piefed then.

Yeah I’m honestly just waiting for a decent app before I jump over to Piefed. Everything I see about that place excites me because every time they drop a changelog, it’s chock full of great things that improve the end user’s experience. It’s the future of this platform IMO.

Ah if only I could be tough and brave and cool like you.

According to another user in here, blocking on Mastodon actually works. So seems like it is possible to do in the Fediverse.

The only way I could see that working is if the list of users you blocked were federated too, and effectively made public

I actually thought blocks were public already. And personally I don’t see how it would be an issue if people that I haven’t blocked can see who I’ve blocked.

As far as I’m aware, on Reddit blocking a user doesn’t hide your comments from them

According to Reddit themselves on their support page: “Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your posts or comments”

Then what happens if you post in a community where someone you’ve blocked is a moderator?

Let moderators see comments from users that have blocked them in communities that they moderate but nowhere else. Or do whatever Reddit does in this case.

Lol I’m not interested in begging for a nicer reception from people that upvote blatant misinformation as long as it suits them. I wasn’t that ticked off when I started but this thread has taught me that this place can be a fkn clown show.

Seriously, the fact that the “it’s always been this way even on Facebook and Reddit” guy is the top comment here means that people’s opinions here are worth less than shit. And I might as well be trying to convince MAGA manosphere people to be decent human beings. Because I’m dealing with the same kind of delusion here.

With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.

See that’s my problem here. I just came from a heavily moderated instance because I thought that I could moderate my own experience instead. But it turns out that I have to rely on admins and moderators anyway.

Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don’t really care about quality (all about engagement).

Yeah I don’t buy this. To me, it makes perfect logical sense that if I block someone, they’re actually blocked and not just hidden from my view. Maybe this wasn’t a problem for forum sites used by a couple of hundred people at most but it’s not 1999 anymore and there’s a lot of psychos out there. It’s nice to know that you can actually protect yourself to some extent on an online platform these days.

If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked

I too enjoy when the proper meanings of words get used and things work as advertised. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that this is such a controversial topic here. Imagine wanting moderation tools that actually work, the nerve!

So, 20 years ago before Facebook? I know for a fact that blocking has always worked properly on Facebook, I had a very toxic ‘friendship’ there another lifetime ago where we were blocking and unblocking each other every 5 minutes. But it’s funny how everyone here keeps upvoting the incorrect information and ignoring the correct information about this. Not funny haha but funny peculiar. If Facebook only filtered out people instead of blocking them properly, it would be a disaster as far as stalking goes. And I think that everyone knows it because normally people on this platform seem quite rational. Except for when there’s any criticism of the Fediverse, that is.

When you block someone, the first thing that Facebook does is restrict the blocked user’s access to your profile. The user can’t view your profile even if they have a direct link to your account page. They’ll get an error message if they try to do that.

Information from https://www.howtogeek.com/896008/what-happens-when-you-block-someone-on-facebook/

You can keep making these bullshit statements about how it works on other sites but thankfully I have this thing called ‘internet’ to look up the facts myself.

If you’d like to cut off contact from someone for any reason, you can block them by going to their profile or visiting your user settings.

Redditors you block won’t be able to access your profile or see or reply to your post or comments in communities, unless you are a moderator in specific situations.

From https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413520308372-How-does-blocking-work. But I see that you downvoted that user for their correct information anyway without bothering to confirm for yourself. I find it pretty sad how people around here seem to be falling over themselves to defend the Fediverse at all costs without even discussing something or wanting it to be better.

I have literally always known blocking to be blocking, not filtering. Blocking blocks people on your phone, on chat apps, on Facebook and on Reddit. Not sure why this is a special case that needs to be forgiven or ignored.

Good one 🤣🤣😂🤣

Can you give examples of platforms where it works like this? I know that blocking someone on Facebook blocks them from being able to see you. Pretty Twitter is or was the same before Musk. And I just looked it up, blocking a user on Reddit does in fact block them from seeing you. I’m pretty sure it’s always worked this way on smaller platforms I’ve used too.

So I’m curious to know, which platforms have you always used that have apparently always worked this way?

Ah there it is. The “it’S oNlY imAGiNAry iNteRneT pOInts” smart ass comment. I knew it was coming, glad it’s out the way.

Don’t forget Germany. Seems like the only lesson their politicians learnt from WW2 was “don’t ever criticise Israel.”

These Republicans are literally evil and it baffles me and fills me with despair that people just don’t see it. They want to fuck and marry children, and send them to work in the mines, on school nights. They dismantle environmental protections and human rights with glee. They want to privatise everything and make everyone beholden to billionaires that make more in an hour than others will in a lifetime. They force brain dead mothers to incubate babies and healthy mothers to incubate brain dead babies.

They are undeniably evil fucking scum. But they’ve got everyone convinced that the drag queen reading children’s books in a public library is the thing destroying society. And to me, the worst part of all is that none of these things are a secret. They don’t campaign for child marriage in secret, they don’t force women to go through absolute horror behind closed doors. This is all openly done and known. So what does that say about the many many people that act like they’re their saviours?

That’s totally fair. Not everything has to be an excuse to get drunk or stoned or whatever. Just being in good company, eating good snacks and hanging out can be enough.

Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.

Lmao fine! It’s annoying but I get it. If we’re having a picnic, everyone must be comfortable and happy. So let’s do it this way, anyone that wants to meet up for a smoke session before the picnic is welcome to join me and if you me slipping away from the crowd your few moments, you know what’s up. But I’m actually fine with keeping the picnic itself PG for the sake of all ages and cultures.

Oof, in that case I guess I’ll have to go with a legal and socially acceptable drug that’s actually worse for you. Wine it is! I prefer dry red myself but I’m open to whatever lol

If you want to quickly and easily get past karma limits, just spend a day in AskReddit, answering posts in the ‘rising’ sort. Eventually one of those posts will take off and just because you answered early enough, you’ll get hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. It’s usually more about timing than quality there.