• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      I haven’t really had negative interactions with hexbear users since instance blocking and blocking like 30 users I noticed being assholes way back. Maybe they’re still responding to my comments without my knowing but idc

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        Mostly that blocking and defederation aren’t the same thing. Blocking only stops the comms on that instance from showing up in your feed. It’s entirely unrelated to the federation / activitypub mechanic. It’s effectively like you turning on a local filter in your client, and only filters communities.

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      10 hours ago

      My experience on my old .world acct was that defederation didn’t stop user interactions/comments, just posts and search/discovery.