JemmyWhat happened here? Does piefed let you send abusive replies to people's inboxes while stopping them from replying?
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Someone just called me a “hardcore conservative” in an era where that’s basically code for “hardcore climate change denialist” and I had to get a notification for it and see it in my inbox but not be able to reply?
Is this an intentional behavior? Did someone think this was a good design choice? Or did this person exploit a bug or something
Could mean their account’s deactivated or they blocked you, but only after that hit your inbox? You got me. Blocking is weird on Lemmy, but other than this, I like it.
The user in the screenshot is on Mastodon
I’mma need more context on why that matters. I’m not-at-all certain OP’s on a Lemmy instance, but I’m posting from Lemmy, seeing this on Lemmy.
Thinking about it, its possible the thread OP interacted with that user on had its comments disabled and hidden afterward. Happens on facebook. Used to happen on Discuss, when that was a more popular “comment service” used by a lot of blogs and other sites.
How do you feel about Skavau’s decision to remove this thread?
No, they blocked you.
So yes, it is an intentional design choice? Blocking people stops them from replying, but doesn’t stop you from replying or put a label on your comment saying “this person blocked the person they’re replying to” or anything?
Yes, that’s how blocking works currently on Piefed.
Definitely seems like an intentional dark pattern then. I don’t see how you’d miss how bad that is in the whiteboard phase, let alone while building and having it deployed
You have your answer now. I’m removing the thread shortly because of the fact you screenshotted another user and bought the laundry of the disagreement to the thread. By all means, make a meta post on it without reference to that.