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1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Sep-2021 18:07:02 EDT Hypolite Petovan
   Block feature behavior informal poll
   
   Hi !Friendica Support,
   
   to settle a technical disagreement in this GitHub issue https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/10762 (not required to read), I would like to know what you expect on any social media platform when you unblock someone. If you were following them and them following you before you blocked them, you expect:
   

   • Both follow directions to resume working automatically.
   • Them to still follow you but you have to re-follow them manually.
   • You to still follow them but they have to re-follow you manually.
   • Both of you to have to re-follow each other manually.
   • Other? Please describe your expectations.

   
   
   Thank you in advance for your participation!
   1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Sep-2021 07:41:28 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      in reply to
      Thank you all for your input, I personally am agreeing with @hoergen based on the behavior on other social media platforms I've been using (Twitter, Facebook) where blocking cuts all ties, but it seems Friendica users have different expectations. This discrepancy is an issue because by design we expect people from other social media platforms to move to Friendica.
      
      Technically, all the cases are easy to implement, but we will need to explain this discrepancy in the interface and even with a well thought-out pop-up confirmation message, I'm not sure it will be enough to clear all the confusion, especially from people using apps based on the Mastodon API where the expectation is 4.
   2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Sep-2021 08:01:50 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      in reply to
      So it seems we are gravitating towards a hybrid solution:
      - Friendica frontend will offer the possibility to manually revoke a follow.
      - Friendica frontend blocking will not sever the current existing follow relationships.
      - Mastodon API endpoint blocking will sever the current existing follow relationships to match Mastodon's behavior.