I noticed recently that someone I blocked in the past was able to downvote my post. I thought if you block someone, they shouldn’t be able to see my posts at all? We are on two different instances if it helps.
I noticed recently that someone I blocked in the past was able to downvote my post. I thought if you block someone, they shouldn’t be able to see my posts at all? We are on two different instances if it helps.
That’s a different platform (mastodon in this instance, which has symmetrical blocking). I’m referring to Lemmy. I believe piefed and mbin do the same thing.
edit: the post discusses account portability-- while the block, itself, carries across federated services, how that block functions depends on the service itself. Lemmy/piefed/mbin and Mastodon blocks don’t work the same way.
I see. I am on a few instances, I guess I need to see if any of them have symmetrical
oh, it’s not an instance-based option. it’s simply not how the service handles blocking.
Edit: there was a big debate about it several years ago, and the lemmy devs were pretty straightforward that they chose to make it this way for a reason and wouldn’t be changing it.
Also to add to this, Reddit blocks used to work like they do on Lemmy now, and the decision to change it there got a lot of negative feedback.