i make myself available in various places online 24/7 with basically the only stipulation being that i can block the unstable people my persona inevitably attracts

cannot imagine using FC to replace Twitter without blocks, especially as DAUs flood in

it’s disheartening to see them keep conflating mutes with blocks

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What does block do that mute doesn’t? 

What happens when another client chooses not to honor the block?

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a mute is not the same as a block because the person can still reply to your posts with everyone else able to see except you. if anything it is worse because you are not aware that everyone else can see the reply, and there is a certain type of unwell person that gets enraged when you do not interact with their reply

below + i don’t see why WC can’t take away the ability to reply or even see posts of someone who blocked you in the front end

below + i don’t see why WC can’t take away the ability to reply or even see posts of someone who blocked you in the front end

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I feel like I already had this argument 7 times on here. If I had to speculate, then I‘d say that there are probably no sufficiently privacy-preserving ways for the FC team to implement block in the protocol level. E.g. u could have a public list of people you block, but I think it can be seen at Bluesky…

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that the outcome of it was bad, e.g. people were bullying each other for their block lists and some people also promoted blocklists to ban entire groups of people etc. Or there could be clients that weaponize blocking. And so this has mission critical risk because it can mess up the social property of the app