Last week, this strange mention appeared on my Mastodon feed. After a bit of clicking around, I figured out what had happened. A user on the Kbin social network had linked to my Mastodon profile. Thanks to the magic of the ActivityPub protocol, it filtered into my mentions - even though I've never even heard [...]
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
There is the ability to block users on Lemmy. And then they’re really blocked, like you can no longer see any comments they made, or replies to their comments. And blocking a community should ensure that it doesn’t show up when you’re browsing all or searching.
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Not that I know of. And I don’t think a Lemmy user can block (for example) a Mastodon user.
There is the ability to block users on Lemmy. And then they’re really blocked, like you can no longer see any comments they made, or replies to their comments. And blocking a community should ensure that it doesn’t show up when you’re browsing all or searching.