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There's certainly a lot of room for UX improvement to increase blocking safety too
[tantek]
at
2025-11-24 20:48
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(in general blockees probably more often discover the block when they try to look at the blocker's profile and it _says_ they're blocked, than from admins proactively tell them
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at
2025-11-24 20:42
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regardless, blocking absolutely has real risks that we need to work through, I very much agree
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at
2025-11-24 20:41
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(this is true for fediverse servers in general, admins would usually have to fork them and modify their code to change that
[snarfed]
at
2025-11-24 20:40
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I was thinking maybe a bit more about, would the blockee's server actually honor and implement the block, even if the admins also tell the blockee
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at
2025-11-24 20:40
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more likely on small instances than on medium or big ones, but yes
[snarfed]
at
2025-11-24 20:39
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maybe! it's definitely possible
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at
2025-11-24 20:39
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I would set expectations that any Masto block you send has a nontrivial likelihood of being shared with the user being blocked, even if on a side channel like a dm or chat
[tantek]
at
2025-11-24 20:29
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Especially on the long tail of smaller Masto instances
[tantek]
at
2025-11-24 20:29
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I kinda disagree [snarfed] re: admins behavior. I would expect/suspect that admins may share this kind of info with their users, like hey heads up someone blocked you, did you do anything sketch? Who? Oh this person. Etc
[tantek]
at
2025-11-24 20:28
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