this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
27 points (100.0% liked)
Chat
8006 readers
13 users here now
Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's helped me a lot as well :) but I wish the block wasn't one sided. It's an odd choice that the other user can still see our content.
whatever we post is public... you can't stop someone from seeing public things. (Even if it worked the way you would like, they could browse anonymously or on a different account to see it). Blocking makes it convenient for you (so you don't have to look at public things that you don't want to see).
Good point but typically blocking is two way not a one way mirror.
Back in my day, one-way used to be the norm. Two-way is a more recent thing on some newer platforms, and I'm of the opinion that it does more harm than good. Especially in a public forum like this, it can be abused by bad actors as a way of hiding misinformation from those that would push back against it.
I know this because when Reddit changed their block system from one-way to two-way, that's exactly how it ended up getting abused.