I noticed recently that someone I blocked in the past was able to downvote my post. I thought if you block someone, they shouldn't be able to see my posts at all? We are on two different instances if it helps.

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Are you sure about this? I went to go read and found blogs saying that blocking stops interacting while only muting stops yourself from seeing their posts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fediverse-account-portability-and-blocking/

https://fedi.exon.name/2025/07/18/blocking/

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    That’s a different platform (mastodon in this instance, which has symmetrical blocking). I’m referring to Lemmy. I believe piefed and mbin do the same thing.

    edit: the post discusses account portability-- while the block, itself, carries across federated services, how that block functions depends on the service itself. Lemmy/piefed/mbin and Mastodon blocks don't work the same way.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I see. I am on a few instances, I guess I need to see if any of them have symmetrical

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    oh, it's not an instance-based option. it's simply not how the service handles blocking.

    Edit: there was a big debate about it several years ago, and the lemmy devs were pretty straightforward that they chose to make it this way for a reason and wouldn't be changing it.

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