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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lemmy's "block" is essentially a "mute" function, too. It makes it so that you don't see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy, at least, would have the excuse of being constantly a work in progress and i guess that not having such a large community that hard blocking is necessary. but twitter would be appallingly bad without blocks--it already is with them!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, Lemmy has the bonus of federation allowing instances to defederate entirely from abuse and spam-happy instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I hope it stays this way. It would suck being excluded from unrelated content on Lemmy just because I had a disagreement with someone at some point in the past (depending on how block happy people are of course).