why the fuck can an account that blocked another account still react to the blocked accounts posts????????
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@16af93 They cannot. What they do is intermittently unblocking you.
The scheme is like this:
* Unblocks you
* Makes their post
* Blocks you so that mastodon hides both their post and the notification about it from you but not for everyone else.
* Everyone else can see their post. You cannot.
That gets used for doxxing and mobbing all of the time but apparently everyone (that hasn't personally experienced it) thinks this is exactly how it should work...
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@agowa338 @16af93 it was the same on twitter.The problem is, if any of your posts are public, then it doesn't matter if you block or not because someone can go to the server.And read them. Although that depends on the server too. But in general, if your posts are public they are public. The only way to avoid it is to block and then post followers only. Which is obviously shit. It would be nice to be able to deny people responses, but I guess they could still read and reply on their own timeline.
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Well I don't give a shit if they read my posts. It's about them leaving shitty replies that I then don't see but everyone else will be able to see right below my post...
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@agowa338 @16af93 i understand that you might not care if you see the replies or not. But with regards to doxing and picking on people it still remains a problem, but I honestly can't see where any way round it. Except much better moderation and removal instantly of people that do it.
The problem as always is not social media.It's the fuckwits who use it
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> understand that you might not care if you see the replies or not.
The other way arround.
I don't care if someone that blocked me can just visit my profile while logged out or with an alt and see them.
What I do care is them being able to leave doxxing or abusive posts in general below my posts and even " @agowa338" mentioning me while doing so but then these posts never showing up for me...
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I'd say if you " @agowa338" me I should be able to see the post even if you blocked me. And if I blocked you it should just not show up to begin with.
Otherwise the block feature should be removed entirely as it is extremely dangerous. Like people could literally organize to come to your doorstep and you'd not know about it until you meet them there.
"replying with your address under ones posts" also isn't something I made up. I've seen that shit happening on Twitter..
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@agowa338 this is not about a post, but literally just a reaction to a post
this one made a post -> a bit later the account that blocked this one reacts to that post
cuz iirc blocking should remove the reactions from the existing posts
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@16af93 well same principal. Someone once said that there are also custom clients for hate-followers that'll do the unblocking and reblocking automatically as well as show all of the otherwise hidden hosts of yours...
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@agowa338 wtf, that implies that the entity is hate following it for some reason
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@agowa338 also the notification is still there, else it wouldn't have seen them react to its post
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@16af93 Another thing that isn't uniform. I've seen them sometimes persisting (e.g. when you had the web page open the moment it fired and before they reblocked you. But it being gone when you didn't in that exact moment.
It feels kinda glitchy and inconsequential.
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They can literally comment under each and every of your posts something like:
> Just visit this degenerate at their home address *insert address here* and tell them what you think about them irl
and you won't be able to see it until someone else informs you about it...
@16af93 They cannot. What they do is intermittently unblocking you.
The scheme is like this:
* Unblocks you
* Makes their post
* Blocks you so that mastodon hides both their post and the notification about it from you but not for everyone else.
* Everyone else can see their post. You cannot.
That gets used for doxxing and mobbing all of the time but apparently everyone (that hasn't personally experienced it) thinks this is exactly how it should work...