• manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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    1 year ago

    why would I not be able to block a user on the internet? I was able to block them on every system from the beginning. Centralized services will have you think you need thier magic code to do that but we used to do it with clients all the time.

    I still run IMAP email clients with a boat load of personal rules, though I did move the blocks to my server for efficiency. Still its MY server, like im posting to you now from my fediverse instance. If i wanted to block someone here they can be annoying sure but at the end of the day I have many of the same tools i had before, though there might be more cat and mouse. That said nothing stops you from having entirely private instances and since we technically can completely control our servers and clients its entirely possible to have things like one-way servers and nodes that are more picky about what they forward. If the network grows you will see an increased sophistication in management tools.

    • smokinjoecalculus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But we were talking about Twitter specifically, not any sort of self-hosted platform or personal site.

      I don’t disagree with you, I’m just confused when the discussion moved from Twitter to an anecdote about one’s IMAP email client

    • hyazinthe@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Recently, here on lemmy, someone explained Usenet in its days, and said that you yourself couldn’t block others, but only ask the ISPs to. Isn’t that “social” without being able to block others?

      Besides, I feel like @smokinjoe@lemmy.world didn’t want to suggest that you were not able to block others in the past, just stating what he assumed you meant, without evaluating.