I try to give the most grace possible. I’ve only ever blocked two users here. That said, I’d totally understand why someone might block me.
I try to give the most grace possible. I’ve only ever blocked two users here. That said, I’d totally understand why someone might block me.
You can’t see them, that’s the point. You block users, comms or instances you don’t want to see on your timeline.
You don’t get to decide what other people want to see on theirs
Strong agree. If blocking also means they can’t see your posts or comment on it, then that becomes primarily a way for trolls to attack and block anyone who disagrees with them
That’s not it because it’s not about deciding for others, but about deciding for your own posts. I should be able to decide on my visibility.
Where do you get this idea?
Where do you get the idea that it is at all possible to stand up on your soapbox in the town square, addressing every Tom, Dick, and Harry, yet keeping certain members of the public from hearing your speech?
When I logout of my instance, you can’t distinguish me from any other anonymous user. I’m part of the anonymous masses. If you want to keep me from seeing your content, you can’t post it for the anonymous masses to see.
Facebook (and other proprietary, centralized services) give the impression that this can be done, but the way they are doing it is by refusing to show content to anonymous users. You can’t do that with federated services.
You have control over your visibility, anything you don’t want people to see, you don’t put in the internet.