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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I sometimes block obnoxious people, but I only block myself from seeing them, right? Their newer comments will still be visible for anyone else. I guess the fediverse cannot handle real blocking of people, right ?

I mean I can understand (not in OPs case) sometimes you want to ban a person, not just block them (again, not in OPs situation, that's just a childish mod).

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago*

    Correct.

    You can also, before you block them as a user, look and see what they mod, if anything.

    Block all those comms, then, block the user.

    If everyone were to adopt a paradigm like this, active engagement with the... way that lemmy works, to express displeasure with certain people or comms...

    You end up with a kind of dynamic equilibrium... people who are disliked, disagreed with... their comms just stagnate.

    But, the whole trick is convincing people that... their engagement with lemmy as a system, as a collection of basically message boards run by people... well, it requires active engagement, if you don't want it to redditify, ossify into cliques of ludicrous powermods.

    An asymmetrically balanced psuedo-direct democracy, if ya'll can keep it.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How does that interaction with moderation I wonder, like, if you moderate a place, you presumably need to be able to see what is going on in it, to see if something breaching whatever conduct standards you have has been posted. If you have a bunch of users that you can't see, doesn't that undermine your ability to do that?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Lemmy doesn’t, PieFed does.

    If you block someone on PieFed their replies to your comment won’t federate out of the instance they posted it on.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Do you have any contact with quokk.au admin? There's a serious problem with the troll using quokk.au as the instance in which to spam from.

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