• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    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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      3 hours ago

      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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      4 hours 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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      10 hours ago

      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?