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They may not have real federation, but they do some things well
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Context: Lemmy still allow people to comment on your posts or comments after you blocked them:
Has happened multiple times to me. I called somebody out for saying something wrong or bigoted or whatever, they blocked me after responding to me, I could no longer respond back to their response. And then presumably they kept saying shit that I was not able to see because I was blocked
It's a short-sighted way of implementing blocking, since it allows for heavy abuse by bad actors
Yeah, there was plenty of discussion on Reddit back in the day about the drawbacks and pitfalls of the blocking system. Surprised to see people calling for its implementation here.
Is there a long-sighted way to implement blocking?
Not when it takes one minute to create a new account