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Has something changed about blocking users? (piefed.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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Until some time ago (a few weeks or so), I'm pretty sure I could still come across comments written by users I blocked. I know that because I started to tag the users because of that. Now I've noted that not only comments by blocked users are completely hidden from me, but the entire thread starting from them, including responses by other users, is invisible.

I'm not really sure if that's the intended behavior (and if it's piefed or my instance that does it).

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Previously, there was a bug in the API that didn't hide comments from blocked users https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1608

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Do you have any instances blocked? I’m getting an impression it started applying to users recently. Not complaining, that’s what I wanted to achieve.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    Only users and communities. I'm not really complaining if it changed, I'd just like to understand the feature. That said, I usually thought blocking is about preventing interaction, and not about hiding content.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That's how it works on Lemmy. I would have expected Piefed to do it better and simply hide the blocked user, and not everything in reply to the blocked user since it has so many other things done better than Lemmy.

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    [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    It'd be nice to have some granularity here.

    Like options.

    Block posts? Check

    Block comments? Uncheck

    Maybe instead of block, an auto hide feature, or auto collapse comments. So the rest of the comment tree is viewable

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