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One important thing to note here. In decentralized social networks, blocks make very little sense and are nothing more than social convention. There's nothing
by miki123211 3y ago
One important thing to note here. In decentralized social networks, blocks make very little sense and are nothing more than social convention.
There's nothing stopping you from writing a Bluesky (or Mastodon) server that doesn't respect blocks, shows a list of users that you have been blocked by or gives you block notifications. On centralized networks with closed-off APIs, you can make first-party apps respect block semantics and the point of blocks is accomplished (friction increases.) On decentralized networks, users can just migrate to non-block-respecting instances, and nobody else will ever know whether another instance respects blocks or not.
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- kixiQu 3y agohttps://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#locked https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#locked https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#private https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#private I think what you are describing is majority-accurate (arguably https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#authorized_fetch https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#authorized_fetch addresses some of it, though it's not watertight) for public content. However, quite a lot of people set up their profiles/posts with access controls.