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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 08:23:07 EST Michael Vogel
   !Friendica Support with the arrival of a lot of new users, the need for proper blocking/hiding/ignoring increased. Currently this doesn't really work like expected, I guess.
   
   What isn't possibly anyway is to prevent the other side from reading your posts when they are public.
   
   Improving the blocking is an issue for another day. Now I would like to know your opinion about ignoring. Currently the ignoring works in a (I guess) more unexpected way. It prevents the user from seeing top level posts by that user. But comments will still be available. The thought behind this was: "That person is really spammy with their cat videos, but in fact I like their comments on other posts"
   
   I guess that this idea is an edge case. And in fact we can unfollow such users and they still can comment on our own posts, so there is no need ignoring them.
   
   So what is your thought?
   1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 14:35:17 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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      @heluecht Consider making "ignore" more like "mute" in Mastodon and Pleroma. You're just not listening to anything they post, so no top-level posts, no comments, no likes/dislikes/emoji reacts, no notifications. Note that neither of those platforms does this without bugs, but that's a step toward improving user-level curation and moderation tools.
      1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 18:53:12 EST Michael Vogel

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         At least it is a unified experience.
   2. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 14:37:51 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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      @heluecht Among the differences with "block" is that "mute" does not notify the other person's server and does not force-unfollow. With Mastodon, you can mute for a particular time period, so that you can avoid their odious political views during a hellthread and still see their other posts after the mute expires.