Of course, but I believe we have to go with the most likely. Mastodon-compatible apps are branded as such so I believe it does set expectations towards Mastodon rather than Friendica.
Unfortunately, yes. We have to follow Mastodon’s behavior when using their API, because we have to believe this is what Mastodon clients and their users will expect.
On the Friendica frontend we can (and probably should) follow the results of this informal poll which heavily leans towards 1, even if I’d rather not but I don’t want to alienate the current user base.
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.
We have plans to add an explicit revoke follow action for networks that support it (like ActivityPub) so it would remove the need for blocking to silently do it.
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.
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.
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