They shouldn’t be able to do that!

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    I’m just trying to explain that what OP wants is reasonable,

    And I maintain that it’s not reasonable. You (and OP) want individual users to be able to control what other individual users can see and do on the Fediverse. They’ve tried that on Reddit. RunawayFixer found this experiment, for example. The results were not good from a pragmatic perspective, let alone a philosophical one.

    I think you’re going to have to accept that in a free environment there are going to be people saying things and reading things that you don’t approve of. You can create a community with whatever rules you want to enforce there, but you can’t enforce your rules on other communities. Just as they can’t enforce them on yours.

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      24 hours ago

      I’m not trying to enforce rules on other communities.
      im not even trying to enforce rules on any community

      reddit-style blocking would allow the person to continue to be in that community, they wouldn’t even need to be kicked out.

      its crazy that you’re framing personally blocking someone so they cant reply to it as though I’m changing the rules for lemmy communities.

      Like, OP wasn’t even saying that blocking someone should hide my content from the person I blocked, just that it should stop them from replying to it. it doesn’t even have to be reddit style, it just has to be more than shutting your eyes and ears and saying “lalalalala”

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        23 hours ago

        its crazy that you’re framing personally blocking someone so they cant reply to it as though I’m changing the rules for lemmy communities.

        It is, though. By your actions you would change what someone else is able to do, regardless of what community they’re in. By blocking someone you’re creating a new rule on what that someone is allowed to do and see across all of the Fediverse.

        That’s the fundamental disagreement here. I don’t think this is acceptable. You can change what you see, and moderators can change who and what is allowed inside their community, but nothing you do should be affecting what someone else can do across all of the Fediverse.