I find it interesting what happens when somebody blocks you on fediverse.
And then fun starts.
I very well understand why blocking is there and why the sender had no way to know what’s going on. I would still prefer the person at least telling me they block me so that I know what’s going on.
Either way I think it’s very impolite do block people in as civilised conversation, just because they disagree without finishing it. That we are in a digital world does not mean we shall behave like jerks. Nobody is forcing that person to read my stuff and I certainly am not asking anybody to respond to whatever I have in mind. I learn something every day. Just today I learned something about strange behaviours of others.
@FailForward The consequence of federated social media.. We should spin up a block bot though, those notify you when someone blocks you.
Usually i just click someones profile and refresh and if the follow button is inactivated I know they blocked me.
@FailForward There is a culture of drama on the internet sadly.. I think people think they get white knight points everytime they find someone they can decalre is “evil” whom they “vanquished” with a block… I wouldnt worry about it too much, they are usually just living some fantasy in their head and has little to do with you.
The disapearing notifications thing is common, it has to do with the timedelay of federation and tends to go away after some time. It may also be related to our subscribe feature which proactively tries to go out and fetch content regardless of an actual federated follow, which only stops once it gets notified you were blocked (which foreign servers dont always do and thus relies on periodic updates to become aware)