There is an interesting thread here showing the “block” behavior is operating as described in the documentation (Hiding), this raises some questions of a true block or just a client filter: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/111590515879528415

I’m curious for additional clarity now!

Lol well hey, fair enough. That’s much more recent than anything I found, too. I’d be interested in seeing this feature implemented as well. It would be nice to not directly contribute to anything Meta…

I’m no expert that sounds like limited federation mode? Seems it’s supported for truly private instances (ie. Universities) but discouraged? At the similar server level I thought lemmy had bidirectional defederation too, but nothing that would be at the user level like the new instance blocking feature.

Can you share more info on how mastodon blocks function? Their documentation list the user action as “Hiding an entire server”, which seems in line with lemmy

More info I found:

For Mastodon server admins, a bit more about the “authorized fetch” feature. It makes it more difficult for blocked accounts to interact with public posts on your server. It’s not fool-proof as public posts can always be scraped by outsiders, but it makes life harder for trolls

When you post to the fediverse, it’s federated. That is a strength for resilience, but the flip side is anyone can hoover up the data. I haven’t seen any plans to prevent this as it sort of goes against the nature of activitypub.

Disagree with “on my radar”, I do give a shit - and I’ll get to it, there’s just 8 other things catching fire that need dealt first…